Quote:There are 17 candidates in the GOP field. According to this article, they identify seven candidates as being on the record against birthright citizenship. Yes, I know, it's MSNBC, but who better to hold them against than their own reporting? Seven of seventeen is not 51%. If you look at Marco Rubio's quote, who MSNBC lists as against ending birthright citizenship, he seems to be taking the position that others in this forum have--legislate around the 14th Amendment to end birthright citizenship. I'll go ahead and give MSNBC the benefit of the doubt and throw him into the "end birthright citizenship" crowd.

 

That means that as of three days ago, MSNBC had identified Trump, Paul, Santorum, Graham, Christie, Jindal and Walker as against birthright citizenship, and I've thrown Rubio in there to give them the benefit of the doubt. That's still only eight of seventeen, or 47%. If one more candidate has since come out against birthright citizenship, their claim is correct, and three days is a long time in politics, but as recently as August 18th, one of the "facts" they cited in an article dated August 19th was incorrect by their own measure.

 

So my question to you is, was the article by MSNBC that was linked earlier and I quoted accurate or responsible journalism?

 

Also, I disagree with you regarding including Marco Rubio based on that article.  I don't see him wanting to "legislate around the 14th Amendment to end birthright citizenship".  I see his comment being about addressing the illegal immigration issue.

 

Here is his quote from the article.

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”I’m not in favor repealing the 14th Amendment, but I am open to exploring ways of not allowing people who are coming here deliberately for that purpose to acquire citizenship,” Rubio said on Tuesday.

 

Legislating "around the 14th Amendment" is not the same as "not allowing people who are coming here deliberately for that purpose".

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