Not a NBC, if anyone cares.
Natural-born citizen = Native-born citizen. No matter how much some people want that not to be the case, no court will ever say it’s not.
“Not an NBC, if anyone cares.” I care. That includes Gabbard, Haley, and Rubio as well.
Why is this important? It’s important for one simple reason: Our President is the Commander-in-Chief of the nation’s armed forces. When you stop and realize this one person holds virtually all executive power, and also take into account the vast increase in speed and destructive firepower modern weapons now have over their 18th Century counterparts, you begin to realize just how important this requirement has become in today’s turbulently shrinking world, and how important it is to apply the narrowest of definitions to the “natural-born citizenship” provision rather than standing on the threshold of abandoning it altogether — forever.
That ship sailed in 1881, so I don't care.
Except that he is. He was born in the United States to parents legally within the United States. That was the meaning of the term at the time it was written into the Constitution, and also has been adjudicated to mean that multiple times by this point. That is reality.