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Ted Cruz: The Anchor Baby Candidate
In a series of tweets, Coulter, an ardent anti-immigration advocate, suggested that Cruz was not a “natural born citizen,” a requirement to run for President outlined in the Constitution:
Cruz was born in Calgary, Canada to an American mother and Cuban father. His mother's citizenship status qualifies him as a “natural-born” U.S. citizen at birth according to legal interpretations of the Constitution.Coulter herself seemed to recognise this reality as recently as a few years ago. In a tweet from 2013, she explained that Cruz “was born a citizen” by virtue of his mother and “CAN RUN FOR PRESIDENT.”
In 2009, she also dismissed those who questioned whether President Barack Obama actually was born in the United States as “a few cranks” who were an embarrassment to the Republican Party.
Coulter’s dramatic reversal on Cruz’s eligibility to be President closely mirrored that of his GOP presidential rival Donald Trump, who was once an outspoken Obama birther.
Though Trump told ABC in September that Cruz’s presidential eligibility was valid and had been “checked out by every attorney,” he suggested in a Tuesday Washington Post interview that Cruz could be “tied up in court for two years” over his citizenship status.
As for Cruz, he dismissed these accusations as “political noise” on Wednesday, insisting that the matter was “settled law.”