There is no longer a question of whether presidential candidate Mitt Romney was born in the United States or not. A copy of Romney’s birth certificate was released to Reuters by his campaign and the certificate says the candidate was born Willard Mitt Romney in Detroit, Michigan on March 12, 1947. Oddly enough, Romney’s father, George Romney, a former Michigan governor and one-time Republican presidential candidate, was born in Mexico. The Chicago Tribune reports:
Finally, there is definitive proof: The presidential candidate was born in the United States, and his father was not.
Yes, Republican Mitt Romney appears eligible to be president, according to a copy of Romney’s birth certificate released to Reuters by his campaign. Willard Mitt Romney, the certificate says, was born in Detroit on March 12, 1947.
His mother, Lenore, was born in Utah and his father, former Michigan governor and one-time Republican presidential candidate George Romney, was born in Mexico.
So on a day when real estate and media mogul Donald Trump was trying to help Mitt Romney by stirring up a new round of questions about whether Democratic President Barack Obama was born in the United States, Romney’s own birth record became a reminder that in the 1968 presidential campaign, his father had faced his own “birther” controversy.
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