Sen. Ted Cruz on the Mike Gallagher Show

was reading the political you you guys %HESITATION got I think was half a million dollars of infusion of contributions

it was all your setting all kinds of records in terms of the the response from the support that's got to be very personally gratifying for you well

it is an and actually that count was only a mid day count that was about halfway through the first day by by

the end of the first day %HESITATION people had come about a hundred and forty thousand people had come to our website Ted

Cruz dot org and we ended up raising over one million dollars in the very first day of the campaign while

well into there's no question your speech has resonated with millions and millions of people and

a lot of us who've who followed you for some time are sort of sitting back saying good this is good this is what the country needs to see they need to see this it's

really extraordinary man %HESITATION I guess you can be judge the success of of your initial you

know days here can be judged by the intensity and the ferocity and the viciousness

of the risks of the way people even even fellow Republicans have responded I had a little bit of a field day yesterday wondering

if if so with Pete came going on a tirade congressman king from New York about about

how you jump off a bridge yeah or jump off a building if you became the presidential nominee you

never hear Democrats talk about Democrats this way do you %HESITATION you certainly don't but you know that's %HESITATION I

I try not to pay much attention to whoever's throwing rocks and on my and I I have not reciprocated and I don't intend to %HESITATION

I will say I think I thought the most amusing comment of all of them was the New York times one day after we announced gravely

in town that that that there's no way that Republicans can nominate cruise because the Washington elite hate

to be honest I'm happy to send that opinion of the York times every voter in America and I'm perfectly happy to abide by the results of that reference this great campaign commercial at you and

for me the most amusing one is watching places like CNN I think over the Huffington post their questioning whether

you're eligible that old that this old story now wait a minute I thought a lot of the a lot of people condemned

and conspiracy theorists but now some of those same folks are questioning your eligibility for president which of course is not is a non starter well

they are in and as a legal matter it's it's quite straightforward the constitution require someone to be a natural born citizen %HESITATION

I was born in in Canada my mother was a U. S. citizen by birth itself under

federal law the child of the U. S. citizen born abroad is a natural born citizen I was a citizen the instant

I entered the world of never been naturalized and never breathed a breath of air on earth that I wasn't a citizen and

Romney Matt's father was born in Mexico when is parents were Mormon missionaries down there and actually Barry Goldwater I