Donald Trump seizes on Heidi Cruz's slip-up

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http://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-seizes-on-heidi-cruzs-slip-up/

 By Rebecca Shabad CBS News May 2, 2016, 10:48 AM

Donald Trump on Sunday seized on Heidi Cruz's comment from a day earlier that her husband Ted Cruz is an immigrant.

"Heidi Cruz -- nice woman -- said 'My husband is an immigrant.' That's what I've been saying. I think she was trying to put a little bit of a Latin turn on it. He was born in Canada folks, he was born in Canada," the GOP presidential front-runner said at his second rally Sunday in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

At a campaign stop in Indiana on Saturday, Heidi Cruz said "Ted is an immigrant...He is Hispanic. We can unify this party."

A Cruz aide told The Washington Examiner, however, that she misspoke and meant to call Cruz the son of an immigrant.

Trump in March retweeted an unflattering photo of Heidi Cruz, which compared her appearance unfavorably to his wife, former model Melania Trump. For awhile earlier this year, Trump questioned Cruz's eligibility for the presidency because he was born in Canada. He even threatened to take legal action, but said Sunday that Democrats "will bring a lawsuit against him." Cruz was born in Canada to an American mother and a Cuban father.

He first brought up Heidi Cruz's comments about her husband in an interview with Fox News' "Fox and Friends" on Sunday.

"I assume she's saying he's an immigrant from Canada. Because, you know, he lived in Canada for the first four years of his life. Not an immigrant, like I think she's referring to," he said in the interview.

This comes ahead of Tuesday's primary in Indiana, which could be critical in further winnowing the GOP presidential field.

[mountaineer]

Asked later, a Cruz aide said Mrs. Cruz misspoke. "As she has in numerous speeches over and over, Heidi was referring to Ted as being the son of an immigrant," said spokeswoman Catherine Frazier. "That is a story she shares repeatedly on the campaign trail. It is an integral part of his background and personal story, one which resonates with the millions of Americans who share a similar background, and that gives hope to those struggling to climb the economic ladder." Examiner

[NavyCanDo]

Yes she misspoke. We all do.   It would be like Trump and his supporters to trounce on it.   Cruz should in turn now trounce on Trump's misspoken word of the week - that Tan-zany-ah is country. 

[jmyrlefuller]

Even if it weren't a misstatement, it doesn't matter. One does not need to be physically born within the bounds of the U.S. to be a natural born citizen, except under the completely fictional definitions of the birther movement that Trump's base continues to exploit.

[mountaineer]

Yes she misspoke. We all do.   It would be like Trump and his supporters to trounce on it.   Cruz should in turn now trounce on Trump's misspoken word of the week - that Tan-zany-ah is country.

Especially when you're giving the same talk over and over, sometimes you slip. Say, "Ted is the son of immigrants" often enough and your mind sticks on "Ted ... immigrants." When I ran for office there were a few main points I always wanted to make at the beginning of my talks, too, and I said them every chance I got.