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Ted Cruz: “I was, in fact, a natural born citizen, because what the…”

Featuring: Ted Cruz, Republican | U.S. Senate, Texas

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Defending Democracy - Trump Will Win at the Supreme Court | Verdict Ep. 194

Published | Video Starts at 21:38

And he mentions me, actually. And there were disputes. There were challenges when I was running for president, there were legal challenges that I was not a natural born citizen. I was, in fact, a natural born citizen, because what the Constitution requires is that you be natural born. I was a us citizen even though I was born in Canada. My mother was a us citizen at the time of my birth. And so I was a citizen by birth. (21:38–21:45)

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Asserts that he meets the constitutional requirement of being a natural born citizen.

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