Joe Rogan on history: what the evidence says · JRE #1515
SUBJECT: HISTORY
The short answer
Rogan claims George Romney (Mitt Romney's father) was unable to run for president because he was born in Mexico. George Romney was in fact a candidate for the 1968 Republican presidential nomination; his 1907 birth in a Mormon settlement in Chihuahua, Mexico was never a legal bar to running.
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Mitt Romney's dad couldn't run for president because he was born in Mexico. Do you know that?
What the evidence says 01 / RECORD
George Romney was in fact a candidate for the 1968 Republican presidential nomination; his 1907 birth in a Mormon settlement in Chihuahua, Mexico was never a legal bar to running. Because both of his parents were U.S. citizens at the time of his birth, he was widely regarded as a natural-born citizen under the Constitution, and the eligibility question, though raised publicly, was never resolved by a court since he withdrew from the race for unrelated reasons. Rogan's claim that Romney's father was barred from running because of his Mexican birthplace is false.