Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus affirmed Thursday that he believed Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is eligible to run for President.
Priebus had previously avoided saying whether he believed Cruz was a “natural born citizen” eligible to run for commander-in-chief in an interview with Time. Cruz was born in Canada to a mother who is a U.S. citizen and Cuban father.
“He is eligible,” Priebus told CNN’s Jake Tapper on Wednesday, adding that the Time interview was three days old. “But I’ve done many interviews, and I have said that he’s eligible. All of our candidates are eligible.”
“What you’re referring to is sometimes my knee-jerk reaction to a lot of these things when I say, look, I’m not getting in the middle of this argument,” Priebus continued. “As far as that question goes it is my opinion is that he is.”