Her mother was a US citizen, so was her father, through his grandfather, a US sailor and citizen.
Even if one believes the NBC theory, Barry Goldwater was as eligible to be president as John McCain, and possibly more eligible than Barack Obama. Goldwater’s mother was born in Illinois and his father (sources say) in California.
Also, in the time of the framers of the constitution the US had control over large territories west of the Appalachians that had not become states. If Washington, Jefferson, or Adams had had a son who went over the mountains to settle the west would they really have wanted him to be excluded from holding the high office that they did?
What foreign-spiced candidate have you fallen in love with, unwisely pledged your troth to?
“If Washington, Jefferson, or Adams had had a son who went over the mountains to settle the west would they really have wanted him to be excluded from holding the high office that they did?”
Territories are traded between sovereign states like baseball cards.
Place of birth of the parents isn’t the question. The question is their citizenship status as of the date the future POTUS candidate was born.
The parents need not be NBCs.
But they do need to care enough about the fine points of loyal membership in our local polity to ensure they become U.S. citizens (and hopefully also get married) before the child is born.
Thereby severing any potential claim on that child’s hide on the part of a foreign country (e.g., in trying to field an army).