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Donald Trump may not question U.S. President Barack Obama’s birth certificate anymore, but on Tuesday he hinted that rival Ted Cruz’s Canadian origins could bar the Calgary native’s path to the presidency.

“I’d hate to see something like that get in his way,” Trump said in comments to the Washington Post.

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“But a lot of people are talking about it and I know that even some states are looking at it very strongly, the fact that he was born in Canada and he has had a double passport.”

Cruz, the Texas senator battling Trump for the “outsider” vote among registered Republicans, was born in Calgary in 1970 while his parents were working in the oil business. He was a dual citizen at birth, receiving his U.S. citizenship through his mother.

In 2014, however, Cruz renounced his Canadian citizenship. “Being a U.S. Senator representing Texas, it makes sense he should be only an American citizen,” said a spokesperson at the time.