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SgtBash posted...

Air bases of a country based on foreign soil are treated as if they were still on their own soil, right?

So despite Jacobs being born on a military base in Spain because it's run by the US, the base itself is considered American soil, right?

It doesn't matter even then. The rule is that you have to be a "natural-born citizen". Republicans used to argue that that means you need to be born on American soil to run, so that they could do racist Obama birther conspiracies (of which Trump was the biggest proponent btw). But they changed their interpretation when Ted Cruz ran for president, because Ted Cruz was plainly just born in Canada. So now most people accept that you're "natural-born" as long as you were a citizen at birth (either because you were born on US soil or because one of your parents is a US citizen).