I'm not sure that follows. Someone born in D.C. would certainly be a Natural Born Citizen. No one questioned that Barry Goldwater was a NBC, and he was born in the Arizona Territory. I guess the argument on the other side is that Puerto Ricans are citizens by statute and not under the Constitution, but, if the issue ever got to court, I would predict that the courts would say that Puerto Ricans are natural born citizens.
“Someone born in D.C. would certainly be a Natural Born Citizen.”
Not true. It depends on more than one factor, for example, if your parents are foreign nationals working in a foreign nation’s embassy. You are not a native born citizen unless your parents register your birth with local authorities in an attempt at dual citizenship.
Barry Goldwater was born in a territory with a different status than Puerto Rico. The Territory of Arizona was an ‘organized incorporated territory’ of the United States that existed from February 24, 1863 until February 14, 1912, when it was admitted to the Union as the 48th state. See post #25.
The Supreme Court would most likely NOT declare Puerto Rican citizens eligible to run for President or VP. Puerto Rico is NOT a state within the Union and has repeatedly rejected becoming a part of the Union.
Woodrow Wilson was born in Virginia, which left the Union when he was 4. I think he was living in Georgia by then, but Georgia also left the Union. Both states were "readmitted" in 1870, when Wilson was 13. For several years of his childhood he did not consider himself a citizen of the United States.
I don't think being born in Puerto Rico disqualifies someone from becoming President or Vice President, but being from a place with no electoral votes is a definite obstacle...plus are people willing to vote for someone with a tilde in his name? I doubt it.