Can someone from American Samoa run for President?

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Says it in the title.

Can someone from American Samoa run for President? I ask because they're "American Nationals", and not citizens (which enable people from the territories to run).

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It's doubtful that even without the fourteen year residency requirement that someone from an unincorporated territory would have the national connections needed to make a successful run for the Presidency without having spent the requisite fourteen years in incorporated territory.

There is no doubt about that. It was more of a technical question.

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It's doubtful that even without the fourteen year residency requirement that someone from an unincorporated territory would have the national connections needed to make a successful run for the Presidency without having spent the requisite fourteen years in incorporated territory.

There is no doubt about that. It was more of a technical question.

It's one of those technical details that doesn't have an explicit answer, largely because no one sees the need for one.

Well right.

Though, if Tulsi Gabbard runs than we could have our first American Samoan President (that's born there).

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But, what if, they got American citizenship later (like Tulsi Gabbard)? Would they be considered naturalized and thus ineligible for the Presidency?