article_snippet: Lynchburg, Virginia  
article_snippet: These are who we are as Americans.
article_snippet: And yet for so many Americans, the promise of America seems more and more distant.
article_snippet: his graduated from Princeton University and Harvard Law School.
article_snippet: his faced questions over whether his would qualify for the presidency, though law experts consider his a natural-born citizen because his was born to an American mother.
article_snippet: CNN's Adam Levy and Kevin Bohn contributed to this report.