Trump tells Cruz to go govern Canada

Ted Cruz for Prime Minister of Canada?

That’s what Donald Trump believes.

The Republican presidential candidate and billionaire unleashed a new attack on Cruz Monday night, according to NRP.org.

At a rally in Farmington, New Hampshire, Trump blared, “My new battle is with a gentleman named Ted Cruz. The Canadian, the man from Canada,” NPR reported.

Trump then suggested that Cruz should run for prime minister of Canada.

“He’s born in Canada, on Canadian soil. I mean, come on,” Trump told the rally.

In recent weeks, Cruz’s eligibility for the presidency has been a hot topic of debate in the U.S. with many suggesting the Canadian-born Texas senator isn’t qualified because of his birthplace.

Born in Calgary to an American mother, Cruz renounced his Canadian citizenship in 2014.

Cruz’s own efforts to rebuff Trump’s birther attacks have backfired. His attempt to paste Trump with the phrase “New York values” in debates and ads has caused a backlash.

The Daily News in New York City published a piece in which it wrote: “You don’t like N.Y. values? Go back to Canada!” according to The Toronto Star.

And the paper reported that New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, demanded an apology from Cruz for the comments.

Writing in the pages of the Washington Post, Mary Brigid McManamom - a constitutional law professor at Widener University’s Delaware Law School - said “Donald Trump is actually right about something: Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) is not a natural-born citizen and therefore is not eligible to be president of vice-president of the United States.”

But many don’t hold with that opinion.

Over at law.com, Richard L. Hansen - the Chancellor’s Professor of Law and Political Science at the University of California, Irvine and named one of the 100 most influential lawyers in America by The National Law Journal in 2013 - argues Cruz should be eligible.

“There’s a constitutional path to say he is eligible, and a contrary interpretation deprives voters of meaningful choice,” Hansen writes.

Hansen believes declaring Cruz ineligible will lead to other qualified candidates being disqualified.

“This time it may be Cruz, but next time it may be Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet of Colorado, who was born in India while his father was stationed there as a diplomat. Why should voters be deprived of eminently qualified candidates for president based upon a stingy reading of an ambiguous part of the Constitution?” Hansen writes.

The NPR reports that op legal experts believe Cruz is eligible, “though the question has never been tested in courts — something Trump raises as something that could pose a ‘problem’ for Cruz if Democrats sue.”