The necessary requirements are not stiff: “No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty-five years, and been fourteen years a resident within the United States.” The sufficient requirement is that a person who meets the necessary constitutional requirements just mentioned receives an absolute majority (270) of electoral votes by presidential electors selected and determined by the laws of … Continue reading Qualifications for President