"If he (Biden) were to resign or die in office, is Harris legally qualified to succeed him?
The answer is: No, she is not.
The Constitution requires the president be a “natural born citizen,” meaning someone who is born in this country of parents who are U.S. citizens.
That legal term is different from “citizen,” as shown in Articles 1, 3, and 4 of the Constitution, which say senators and representatives can just be citizens while the president must be a natural born citizen.
All other officers of the federal government can be born abroad to U.S. citizens or can even be naturalized citizens themselves.
Why the distinction?
The Framers wanted to assure absolute allegiance, undivided loyalty, and wholehearted attachment to the United States in the officeholder of the presidency.
So they used “natural born citizen,” a common legal term ...
... Only the president is required to be a natural born citizen, so there is no question that he or she has competing loyalty, either by law or by personal inclination. That is the constitutional standard.
... Natural-born citizens are those born in the country of parents who are citizens.
"parents” and “citizens” are the plural form.
... someone qualifies as a “natural born citizen” only if his or her parents are both citizens of the same nation.
... during the Constitutional Convention, Alexander Hamilton, a delegate to the proceedings, tried to get the birth qualification for the office of the presidency to be merely a “citizen,” but his proposal was specifically turned down in favor of the more restrictive requirement of needing to have been born both on the soil and of citizen parents.
... Various websites say Harris could become president because she was born and raised in Oakland, California.
... her parents: “Donald Harris is Jamaican and Shymala Gopalan Harris was Indian-American-Canadian.”
(Donald is still alive;
Shymala died in 2009.
She was naturalized as a U.S. citizen some years after she began her education here.
Before that she lived in Canada.)
And that is the reason Harris is disqualified to become president.
Even though she is American by birth, her parents were not.
She is not a natural born citizen."
... The integrity of the Constitution must be upheld.
It is fundamental to the rule of law in America.
Harris’ eligibility can be determined very quickly and easily by showing that both her parents were naturalized citizens."
