Ted Cruz Citizenship Timeline: Ted Cruz is Canadian at birth. Period.

[anigbrowl]

44. Yeah, this claim that she wasn't a US citizen at all surprises me

If she applied for Canadian citizenship sometime in the 60s, the logical inference is that she was not a Canadian. But if so, what country was she a citizen of? In order to enter Canada in the first place she would have needed a passport from that country, and if she had a valid US passport then she must have been a US citizen.

My previoous understanding, which may not be correct, was that she applied for Canadian citizenship in 1974, after the birth of young Ted. But he was born in 1970 and as of 1968 acquiring citizenship of another country and even voting in that country's elections does not abrogate US citizenship. So if she was a US citizen, then so was Ted Cruz at the moment of his birth.

This article is very vague on the detail, but if the claim about there being no record of her birth in the US is true I wonder if there is a slim chance that she herself was Cuban or some similar possibility. I'm rather skeptical of this 'analysis' for the same reason that I was skeptical of Obama birtherism, so absent more evidence I'm going to assume Cruz is legit for now.

But that's not interfering with my amusement at his sudden inconvenience at all. I admit to hoping Trump brings it up in this evening's debate just to get a rise out of him. Trump isn't that great a debater on policy matters but since his base doesn't care about that he has no incentive to be diplomatic or even sensible.