is ted cruz eligible for potus
US Senator Ted Cruz is running for President in 2016. As a result, there are many questions as to his eligibility for office. His birth in Calgary, Alberta, Canada in 1970 to an American mother and Cuban immigrant father raises questions about his eligibility for office.So, is Ted Cruz eligible to seek the presidential nomination and become President of the United States in the future?bama was also born to a citizen mother and foreign national and he lived for sometime in Indonesia. McCain was in the Panama Canal Zone at the Air Force base where his father served. Like Cruz, McCain was born abroad to US Citizen parents.
Cruz, who came to the U.S. at age 4, is a citizen by birth because his mother was a U.S. citizen when he was born. For that reason, legal scholars argue that he can likely be president.ruz, March 23: The facts are clear. I was born in Calgary. My parents â as a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth. And itâs been federal law for over two centuries that the child of an American citizen born abroad is a citizen by birth, a natural born citizen.