The increasing signs that Donald Trump’s ‘birther’ attack could be hurting Ted Cruz [View all]
The New Republic's Brian Beutler made an observation on Twitter on Thursday night: Ted Cruz's fortunes in Iowa seem to have plunged shortly after Donald Trump began talking about his citizenship.
The issue first came up in an interview with The Post's Robert Costa and Philip Rucker. Asked about Cruz's having been born in Canada, Trump replied that "a lot of people are talking about it and I know that even some states are looking at it very strongly, the fact that he was born in Canada and he has had a double passport." Within days, Trump was embracing the topic more generally, and he has been raising it repeatedly since.
That interview was on Jan. 5. Here's what happened in the poll averages shortly afterward.
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