Eh, at least Rubio was born in America. I don’t think a challenge to his NBC status would be popular or successful.
I could accept Rubio as VP, despite him being a GOPe stooge. Amnesty was his worst sin and he has plenty of other flaws, but he is solidly conservative on social issues, which matters in the general, and is an area where Trump is pretty weak. Part of the battle to win November is going to be to try and get people who might not like (or even hate) Trump to still go out and hold their nose and vote.
A VP is just a figurehead when the President is strong-willed like Trump anyway. If they had a good 8 years, Trump will have changed the game and the era of the Cheap Labor Express will be over, so maybe we’d keep getting good candidates.
The only thing I worry about, and it’s totally tinfoil I admit, is if it was Trump/Rubio and they win (which I think they would, it would be a broadly appealing ticket), to what depths would the GOPe/RNC sink? Would they do the unthinkable to get rid of Trump and put their puppet in charge? The answer I keep coming back to there is “probably”.
But then again, they might do that anyway, regardless of who his VP pick is. Strange times.
If you are an original intent Constitutionalist, the you have to accept the definition of natural-born citizen that the founders used. A person who was born to parents who were both citizens is that definition. Rubio’s parents were resident aliens and that makes him a resident alien at birth.
Veep is in line to take the office of president if anything happens to the president.
Anchor babies are NOT ‘natural born’ US citizens.