Cruz was NOT eligible for that distinction.
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Carry that incorrect thought out to its conclusion and you’ll find that Goldwater was ineligible.
But if you look at the facts - any US citizens is eligible to serve as POTUS.
History proves this to be true.
Goldwater was born in a TERRITORY, not yet a state, but an area BELONGING to the USA. He therefore was a citizen of this nation.
But what the heck...it now appears that none of this matters to some people and certainly NOT to the Dems. So some day, we may wind up with some ILLEGAL ALIEN who was born 3 hours after his ILLEGAL pregnant mother crossed our Southern border.
Goldwater was ineligible.
We could have sold or traded to another sovereign his or any others of the various U.S. territories before any related grant or recognition of U.S. statehood.
Would the “territorial” (i.e., non-NBC) citizens not need to follow an orderly process of Naturalization, spelled out by the U.S. Congress, before being able legitimately to claim full-fledged (except without the ability to run for or hold the offices of POTUS or VPOTUS) U.S. citizenship, in the event they find that the U.S. had traded or sold their territory out from beneath them?