RNC Chair Refuses to Say Whether Ted Cruz is Eligible to be President

by Alex Griswold | 4:11 pm, January 11th, 2016
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In an interview with TIME magazine, Republican National Chairman Reince Priebus refused to say whether or not he thought Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz was eligible to be president.

“A topic in the news today: Ted Cruz was born in Canada,” TIME asked. “Is he constitutionally eligible to be President?”
But Priebus shot down the question. “Listen, I don’t get involved,” he said.

“I’m not going to get in the middle of all these candidate issues.

It’s a bad place for me to be,” he added. “I’ll let all these folks argue about this stuff, and I’m going to stay out of it.”

By comparison, Priebus didn’t show any reluctance in shooting down the Obama birther rumors in 2011, even though Trump was mulling a Republican presidential bid at the time. “Trump and the candidates can talk about it all they want, but my position is that the president was born in the United States,” Priebus said.

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