claim: "technically, (ted cruz is) not even an american."
author: alan grayson
evidence_1: feb 8, 2016 ... with ted cruz the victor of the first contest of the gop nominating calendar, we  can no longer avoid the question mischievously posed by donald trump: . ... a  comprehensive legal fiction (a person born abroad is treated as if he were natural  born even though he is technically not) to using cumbersome new ...
evidence_2: dec 9, 2015 ... u.s. rep. alan grayson, d-orlando, said, "technically, (ted cruz is) not even an  american." we rated grayson's statement pants on fire. cruz gained his  citizenship through his american mother the moment he was born. cruz holds a  u.s. passport and is a duly elected member of the u.s. senate. grayson ...
evidence_3: jul 14, 2017 ... cruz says there's nothing to fear. why not? technically, his amendment would  keep all regulated and unregulated plans as part of a single risk pool. “ted cruz  emphatically told fellow republicans thursday that his amendment to the  senate's obamacare repeal legislation would not split up healthy and ...
evidence_4: jan 22, 2016 ... for years there's been chatter among birthers about whether or not ted cruz is  eligible to run for president, but when he announced his candidacy earlier this  year, .... “even if it once mattered (until 1934), the sex of the parent-citizen almost  certainly isn't a factor under current american law,” garner writes.
evidence_5: jan 20, 2016 ... the argument that ted cruz is eligible to run for president initially looked strong,  then probable but uncertain. but closer examination shows it is ... in any event,  cruz's father was not a u.s. citizen when he was born (again unlike mccain), so  these english statutes do not help cruz. the u.s. statute in 1790 ...