by Sharon Rondeau
(Feb. 22, 2023) — On Tuesday’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” biotech and financial entrepreneur, attorney and author Vivek Ramaswamy announced he will seek the Republican nomination for the 2024 presidential race.
His Twitter account reflects his candidacy with a link to his website, vivek2024.com, displaying the campaign slogan, “The New American Dream.”
Article II, Section 1, clause 5 of the U.S. Constitution requires that the president and commander-in-chief be a “natural born Citizen,” a term not precisely defined by the Founders. Two main schools of thought are that it signifies, “born in the U.S. to citizen parents” or, alternatively, “born in the United States” without reference to the parents’ citizenship.
In 2015, days before U.S. Senator from Texas Ted Cruz (R), who was born in Canada, declared his presidential run, two former solicitors general attempted to make the case that those born outside the United States could be eligible to the presidency.
In contrast, the Framers specified that members of Congress must be “a Citizen of the United States” for seven years for the House of Representatives and nine years for the U.S. Senate.
The other two qualifications are that the president must be at least 35 years of age and “been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.”
According to his Twitter profile and Wikipedia entry, Ramaswamy was born in Cincinnati, OH in 1985; with an August birthday, he is currently 37 years old.
At 12:29 p.m. EST, discussing Ramaswamy’s newly-minted candidacy, Harris Faulker of the Fox News program, “Outnumbered” reported, “He’s old enough to run for president, because viewers have asked, and we checked…”
Ramaswamy’s campaign site reports he was “raised in Cincinnati.”
At 12:06 p.m. Wednesday, this writer attempted to contact Ramaswamy by completing the form on his website, but the “Message” field would not accept any text.
Two other Republicans have officially launched campaigns: 45th president Donald J. Trump, who announced his candidacy in November; and Nimratta Nikki Haley, Trump’s ambassador to the United Nations, who declared herself a candidate last week.
Trump was born in New York City in 1946 to two U.S.-citizen parents, his mother having been naturalized in 1942.
It is unknown whether Haley’s parents, described as “immigrants,” became U.S. citizens before or after their daughter’s birth in South Carolina in 1972. At 12:22 p.m. Wednesday, The Post & Email submitted the following through the contact form on her campaign website:
This is a media inquiry. Were Nikki Haley’s parents naturalized as U.S. citizens at any time before or after her birth?
No one is eligible to be VP or President of the US unless he/she was born IN the US to parents who were both US citizens themselves and further, meets all other requirements set forth in Article II.
He is not a Natural Born Citizen they’ve seen Barry Soetoro get away with now candidates don’t care cause they know they too can get away with it.
No one in the media is asking one basic question. Do you hold or have you ever held foreign citizenship. One would not be shocked to learn Harris, Haley and this guy have foreign citizenship.
Hopefully Trump files suit and challenge their eligibility but don’t hold your breath he didn’t contest Harris’s eligibility and he should have.