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Because Ted might lose. That's a pretty great reason.
You mean Canadian born Raphael Cruz? It’s disrespectful to call a republican anything but their name assigned at birth.
Doubly true for Rafael, given the bill he introduced
I wonder if he understood the irony as he did it
(Most of) These people aren't dumb, they're just giant fucking assholes
I strenuously object to you claiming that he's a Canadian.
It's true, I just strenuously object. You keep him.
If it helps, I'm pretty sure Raphael is just as unhappy about that fact as you are.
I don’t know… he still has lots of support in Alberta.
He's Canadian?......how did he run for president?
Edit: his moms a citizen, he didn't come to the states till he was 4, but he was hoping that was loophole enough I guess
The actual requirement is "natural born citizen", which doesn't really have a formal definition. The most reasonable interpretation is "citizen from birth". While that includes everyone born on US soil, people born elsewhere can still meet that requirement. John McCain was born on a US base in Panama.
I was born in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. My parents were coming back from a morale cruise to Bermuda, and I got born on the USS Enterprise. I am considered a natural born citizen.
Edit: still gonna be Wesley here. It was the CVN-80 not the NCC 1701(*)! You know the one that Chekhov got captured on while he and the rest of the away team were trying to save some whales, while Kirk was trying to get laid.
I got born on the USS Enterprise
Relevant username!
Honestly the only real fascinating thing, as far as I am concerned, is the fact that my place of birth was decommissioned, and therefore no longer exists despite there being coordinates on my birth certificate.
Shut up, Wesley
Normally, I would see that as an insult, but in response to that particular comment, I say, "Well played, sir, madame, or xir."
I would also normally claim that the particular ship I was born on was the CVN-80, and not the NCC 1701, nor any bloody A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, or J, but that is just leaning into the Wesley meme, and I have now transformed into a depressed toucan named John Oliver.
Updooted for posterity.
Technically, I think the base counts as US territory as far as citizenship-from-birth goes, but I could be wrong.
The big one for people born abroad is if one of their parents is a citizen at the time of their birth. If you're an American citizen, go to France for college, and have a kid with a French citizen while you're there, the kid will have both American and French citizenship.
AND BARACK OBAMA WAS BORN IN KENYA
Lyin’ Ted is one of the only ones the orange asshole got right. Broken clock and all.
When the going gets tough, Ted Cruz goes to Cancun
Wouldn't that be the most amazing form of this election? Kamala wins, and the reason the Dems are able to get a trifecta - is because Ted fuckin' Cruz loses his seat.
Nobody likes Ted Cruz and frankly I feel like the Republicans would blame Cruz for being a fuck up before anything else. Like obviously theyll claim it was stolen but before that narrative gets going the ractuon will be blaming Ted Cruz.
So when is someone going to point out that Ted Cruz is an immigrant?
Tx has been moving towards flipping blue.
Clinton lost by ~800,000 votes (5% of registered voters) and Biden lost by ~640,000 votes (~3.5% of registered voters). This year, TX is breaking records for early voting turnout, and, historically speaking, Democrats win with high turnout. In just 4 days, TX has cast almost 1/4 as many votes as the entire 2020 election and that's during the first week of early voting when the polls are only required to be open 9 hours a day. We still haven't seen the turnout for this weekend or next week, when polls are open at least 12 hours a day.
My bet is hard core trump support from Texas this year.
There will be Trump supporters for sure. But don't forget Trump received more votes in CA than TX in 2020 and Biden received more votes in TX than NY.
Hopefully Millenials and Gen Z will step up this election to keep the Republicans from bringing back the Lavender Scare.
Well, fewer people in California were blocked from voting 😅
Democrats win with high turnout.
Lupe Valdez's 3.5M votes in 2018 was about the same number of votes Beto received in 2022. The shrinking gulf is largely coming from a sag in Republican turnout year-over-year. And GOP favorables aren't so bad that the party doesn't consistently beat Democrats in high turnout races.
Maybe this year will be a game changer, but Dems would have to beat a 5-7 pt pad for Trump and at least a 4 pt pad for Cruz. Not holding my breath.
And T is going to New York because he’s obsessed with doing a show at Madison Square Garden.
Really shines a light on what each candidate cares about.
Wouldn’t be the first time.
For the curious, this ~~"Pro American Rally"~~ Nazi rally occurred in 1939
At Madison Square Garden, the rally opened with the Pledge of Allegiance to the American flag. The mood was jubilant. Attendees wore Nazi armbands, waved American flags and held aloft posters with slogans like "Stop Jewish Domination of Christian America." There were storm troopers in the aisles, their uniforms almost identical to those of Nazi Germany. "It looked like any political rally — only with a Nazi twist," said Arnie Bernstein, author of Swastika Nation.
The speeches were explicitly anti-Semitic, and tirades against "job-taking Jewish refugees" were met with thunderous applause. "They demanded a white gentile America. They denounced Roosevelt as 'Rosenfeld,' to say that Roosevelt was in the pocket of rich Jews," said Sarah Churchwell, author of Behold, America. In equal measure to the xenophobia, the speeches were loaded with American boosterism.
Sound familiar?
The real reason conservatives love Israel so much, is that they want somewhere to ship all the Jews in America off to.
Bible literalists also believe that a huge war in Israel is a prerequisite to the second coming of Christ AKA the end times.
Oh, so that's why Israel decided to attack Palestine, Lebanon and Syria all at once.
And Iran.
Pretty sure Israel was attacked by Iranian proxies in those countries. But I'm sure there was a lot of revisionist history going on at that rally in Madison Square Gardens in 1939 too.
Will be funny when no one shows up.
Because she's not a coward, like the republican nominee.
More because Houston is one of the most lucrative fundraising locations in the country for Democrats. Same reason Trump will periodically schlep down to California or out to New York for rallies.
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