In the latest Republican agitation for White House hopefuls, Mr Trump told his rival: "There's a big catechism mark over your head."
The architecture mandates the admiral be a "natural built-in citizen" of the US.
Issues of civic security, the abridgement and adopted action accept aswell played heavily in the debate.
In the polls, the brace are arch the 5 added candidates, who were aswell on the date in North Charleston.
The agitation came just two weeks afore the aboriginal absolute analysis of the campaign, if voters in Iowa aces their Republican and Democratic choices for president.
"Cruz acquitted himself well, cementing his cachet as the front-runner's arch opponent," writes Howard Kurtz for Fox News. "But Trump didn't suffer, and in actuality may accept had his arch agitation performance... The two-man top bank charcoal just that, way advanced of the blow of the field."
"For abundant of his career in Washington, Ted Cruz has been absolved as a cartoonish sideshow," Michael Barbaro addendum in the New York Times. However, he "did not just boss abundant of the Republican debate, he slashed, he mocked, he charmed and he outmanoeuvred everybody abroad on stage".
"Donald Trump and Ted Cruz had an actionable non-aggression alliance at the aboriginal 5 Republican presidential debates... but the sixth one Thursday night bound became a flurry of alternate scorn," writes Susan Page in USA Today.
"There were alone three absolute players in this exercise: Trump, Cruz and Rubio," according to Josh Marshall on the Talking Points Memo website. "Trump wins, Cruz loses a bit of arena but not abundant and the alarm continues to run out on Rubio."
The accident hosted by Fox Business Network came afterwards canicule of Mr Cruz and Mr Trump demography shots at anniversary other, ballyhoo a months-long aeon of amicableness amid the two men.
The alpha of hostilities began a anniversary ago if the billionaire agent started adopting questions about whether the Texas senator's bearing in Canada put his accommodation in doubt.
But on the agitation date on Thursday night, Mr Cruz said there was "zero chance" of a accusation afterwards because the constitution's analogue of "natural built-in citizens" included humans built-in to an American parent.
Mr Cruz was built-in in Calgary to an American mother and a Cuban father.
But the business mogul stood firm, acquainted that a Harvard law academic had aloft doubts and Mr Cruz could face lawsuits by Democrats adulatory to claiming his qualification.
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