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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) says New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is going to have to smooth things over with congressional Democrats after backing several progressive candidates who ousted incumbents during Tuesday’s primary elections.
Asked if Mamdani’s endorsements were making him “enemies” with Democrats in Washington, D.C., Jeffries told CNN that he and Mamdani “strongly” disagreed over his primary picks ahead of Election Day.
Now, according to Jeffries, the mayor has serious “work to do in terms of the conversations that he’s going to have with members of Congress moving forward.”
He was not born in the US so he is not allowed to run for president
That’s not the bar. You have to be a natural US citizen. You can be born outside of the US with US parents and you would be a natural citizen. Ted Cruz was allowed to run despite being born in Canada because his parents were US citizens. It’s just one of the many reasons the whole Obama birth certificate thing was stupid. Even if he was born in Kenya he still would have been eligible because is mom is a US citizen.
You can be a natural-born citizen if you’re born in another country to parents who are US citizens. Mamdani’s parents weren’t US citizens, he wasn’t born in the US, and he is not a natural-born citizen. He is a naturalized citizen, which is a different thing, and he is ineligible to run for president under the current US Constitution (which I guess technically still exists?)
Why is this getting upvoted like it’s up for debate?
Mamdani is not eligible to run for president. That’s just fact.
It’s not the same situation as Cruz.
I mean, he’s every bit as eligible according to the letter of the law and constitution as Trump was to run in '24.
Because it’s a fact. I never said Mamdani is eligible for president. I just said that being born in the US isn’t the bar for being eligible.
Okay but it’s irrelevant because he wasnt natural born citizen either. It does nothing to further the conversation.
It’s not irrelevant because I was correcting the incorrect information. Having correct information is important. That’s how disinformation spreads.
It’s not disinformation, it’s discussing relevant details and not delineating every arcane requirement every single time we discuss if someone is eligible for president or any other question like that.
Incorrect information is absolutely disinformation. Why are you so salty about this? Look, you made an insinuation about my comment that was incorrect. It happens, move on.
Bro it’s not incorrect to cite only the relevant part of a law. It’s actually good practice and judges will chide you for bringing up irrelevant stuff, no matter how true those facts are.
We have a rapist in office, who is almost certainly a Russian asset. Why should the rules selectively apply to Mamdani?