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Puerto Rico is an unincorporated territory, not a state. The U.S. citizens born in Puerto Rico are not natural born citizens. Fortuno is not eligible to be VP, much less President.

I assume, then, that you are acknowledging that Barry Goldwater (born January 2, 1909) from Arizona (became a state February 14, 1912) was an illegal candidate for the office of President when he led the GOP ticket in 1964?

Puerto Rico is an ‘unincorporated territory’, just like Panama. Children born there are U.S. citizens, but they are not recognized as natural born citizens.

Barry Goldwater was born in a territory with a different status. 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.

Puerto Rico has repeatedly rejected statehood. Why in Hell should we have a VP or President from a place that doesn’t want to join the Union?