• FlexibleToast@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    That doesn’t make you ineligible. Ted Cruz was born in Canada but could and did run to be a presidential candidate. The rule is:

    Be a natural-born citizen of the United States

    That could mean that one or both of your parents are US citizens giving you a US citizenship at birth. It’s just one more reason the whole Obama birther thing was nonsense, his mom is a US citizen so it wouldn’t matter where he was born.

    That said, Elon also does not meet that requirement.