THIS IS NUTS – AT 10:08 A.M. ET:   Donald Trump, maybe a bit overconfident, is now questioning whether Marco Rubio is Constitutionally eligible to be president.  He raised the same question earlier about Ted Cruz.  I guess Trump is really going for the Hispanic vote.  From Fox: 

Marco Rubio has joined Ted Cruz in Donald Trump’s crosshairs.

Fresh off his Saturday win in the South Carolina Republican primary, Trump said Sunday he didn’t know whether Rubio, a Florida senator who finished second, was eligible to run for president and that “the lawyers have to determine that.”

“I don’t know,” Trump told George Stephanopoulos on ABC’s “This Week.” “I really – I’ve never looked at it, George. I honestly have never looked at it. As somebody said, he’s not. And I retweeted it. I have 14 million people between Twitter and Facebook and Instagram and I retweet things, and we start dialogue and it’s very interesting.”

Rubio brushed aside Trump’s assertions later on “This Week.”

And...

Trump was questioned on the issue after he retweeted a supporter Saturday who made the allegation and linked to a video from the Powdered Wig Society, a conservative news and commentary website. That video features an unidentified woman claiming someone can only be a “natural-born citizen” if the person’s father was a U.S. citizen.

The Constitution states only a “natural-born citizen” can be president, though it does not explicitly define that phrase.

Rubio, whose parents came to the U.S. from Cuba in the 1950s, was born in Florida in 1971. His parents were not U.S. citizens at the time.

COMMENT:  It's absurd.  If you are born in the United States, you are a natural-born citizen.  It doesn't matter where your parents came from.  Trump has no case here.  He should get off it.  He has to prove to the voters that he's a mature and responsible candidate, and this isn't helping.

February 22, 2016