Ted Cruz has come under fire from many for the techniques he employed in order to turn the Iowa vote in his favor. Receiving the most scrutiny are his mailers that threatened potential voters with a non-existent “voter violation” and an errant statement that claimed Carson was dropping out of the race before voting ended in many precincts.
Even the Governor of Iowa is hitting back for Cruz’s tactics:
Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad chastised Ted Cruz’s presidential campaign for “unethical and unfair” practices on its way to winning Monday’s caucuses.
The Texas senator has received significant criticism from rivals Donald Trump and Ben Carson after his campaign passed along reports Monday night that Carson was on the verge of dropping out. That, critics claim, could have dissuaded voters from voting for Carson at a pivotal time.
“We have a strong sense of fairness in Iowa,” Branstad told Radio Iowa on Thursday. “Distributing information that was not true about a candidate right at the time people are voting in the caucuses is an inappropriate thing.”
Sensing an opportunity to secure the win that eluded him initially, Trump jumped on the controversy almost immediately.
Laying out a series of Cruz actions that he suggested were “fraud,” Trump later summarized in a tweet: “Based on the fraud committed by Senator Ted Cruz during the Iowa Caucus, either a new election should take place or Cruz results nullified.”
In other tweets, Trump explained that he was referring to a controversy for which Cruz apologized to retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson on Tuesday.
Carson’s campaign accused Cruz of playing “dirty tricks” on the night of the caucuses.
The “dirty tricks” employed by the Cruz campaign are explained by Ben Carson below.
Trump and the Carson camp both complained that the Cruz campaign alerted caucus-goers to Carson’s decision to go home for a break after the caucuses, stoking speculation he would drop out. Carson was competing for the evangelical voters that propelled Cruz and he said Wednesday in Washington that the implication he was ready to drop out of the race affected the outcome in Iowa.
“It’s true there were people who tried to take advantage of the situation, to distort information,” Carson said. He said that while Cruz told him he was unaware of the situation, “it’s obvious there were people in his organization who not only knew about it but carried it out.”
Even Karl Rove agrees with the accusations against Cruz. Check out the video below to see what he thinks.
Source: The Hill, Buisness Insider, Bloomberg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ocgEmgXXwF8
Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and Bobby Jindal are NOT eligible to run for President.
US Constitution, The Executive Branch, Article II, Section 1, subparagraph (5): No person, except a Natural Born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States at the time of Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained the age thirty five years, and been fourteen years a Resident within the United States.
Ted Cruz was born on December 22, 1970, in Calgary, Alberta, Canada his parents, Eleanor Elizabeth Darragh Wilson (US citizen) and Rafael Bienvenido Cruz (Cuban citizen) Rafael Cruz immigrated to the US in 1957 and waited until 2005 to become a US citizen. Why did Rafael Cruz wait 48 yrs to become a US citizen?
Marco Rubio was born May 28, 1971, in Miami, Florida, to Mario Rubio (Cuban citizen) and Oria Garcia (Cuban citizen). Both his parents were Cubans citizen when Marco Rubio was born and who had immigrated to the United States in 1956 and waited to become naturalized U.S. citizens until 1975. Why did Marco Rubio’s parents wait 19 yrs to become US citizens?
Bobby Jindal was born June 10, 1971 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to Amar Jindal (India citizen) and Raj Jindal (India citizen). Both parents are NOT U.S. citizens.
The definition of Natural Born Citizen can be found in the Founding documents written by Madison, Monroe, Jefferson, and the members of the Committee of Detail who were responsible for detailing all provisions of the original Constitution signed by the framers upon ratification by the individual states. Also, the definition of Natural Born Citizen, Citizen, and Naturalized Citizen can be found in our laws establishing the Immigration and Naturalization Service.
Sir Vettel wrote the Laws of Nations, and the founding fathers all read it. In that work, he defined what a natural born citizen is. A person born of TWO citizens. Barack Obama is not eligible to be president, and neither are the three people mentioned in this post.
Fox has to have Rove on all the te !!! The establishment!!!!!!!! Do not care for Fox any more!!!!!
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