Katie Couric Gets Pissed When Ted Cruz Reminds Her of This Inconvenient Truth
By: Laura Meyers
In an interview on Yahoo News with Ted Cruz, Katie Couric suggested that Cruz’s presidential campaign may suffer based on the fact that he was born in Canada.
Cruz then rocks her world by reminding her that it was Hillary Clinton’s campaign in 2008 that sparked the anti-Obama Birther movement.
And she did not like that one bit.
Couric: You were born in Canada. Do you think that’s going to be an issue for voters? Because when we did solicit questions on Twitter, we did receive many people who pointed that out. I know your mother was a U.S. citizen when you were born, um, but people seem to have a problem with that.
Cruz: Well, you know, it’s interesting… the whole birther thing was started by the Hillary Clinton campaign in 2008 against Barack Obama. And I recognize that there are folks online that like to push that issue. I’ll tell you as a legal matter, the law is quite clear that the child of a U.S. citizen born abroad is a citizen by birth, a natural-born citizen. My mother was born in Wilmington, Delaware. I was born in Canada, in Calgary, because my parents were working the oil and gas industry, and under federal law, if a child is born abroad…that child is a citizen by birth.
He’s clearly ticked her off at this point, judging by her folded, upset arms, but doesn’t stop there.
 Ticked-off arms
He goes on to remind her all the times in history that a candidate for U.S. president has been born abroad.
John McCain, George Romney, and Barry Goldwater were his other examples.
Katie responds, “So, you’re basically saying you don’t believe it’s an issue at all?”
And Cruz replies, “I think there will be some who will politically try to push it as an issue, but as a legal matter, it is quite straightforward."
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