• network_switch@lemmy.ml
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      3 days ago

      If elected, she’d be 79 years old when she’d be sworn in as a freshman congressperson. Senate terms are 6 years. Solid shot at another democrat dying in office again with this one

      Platner polls well and is much younger and has run very well with young people and progressives. He polls well against the incumbent republican. The talk for months before Mills entered the race was that Schumer was trying to get her to run

      Now there’s stuff coming out about Platner and the Maine race may be screwed regardless. Mills is a bad pick anyways. Biden 2020 level pick for the same reason of too old and not setting up younger generations. Even 60 years old is solid for 2-3 terms before you really get scared that they’re going to Dianne Feinstein themselves in office

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        That matters far more than the stuff I’m seeing about age, which, honestly, I’m just so sick of hearing about. Seems like the age thing is part of a psyops that some are getting fooled by. It’s quite obvious because I don’t tend to see this kind of fracturing in the Confederate Party - they lined up and voted for Taco even though he has one foot in the grave, and I heard almost none of them talking about his age…

        It’s about the policies and the positions. Charlie Kirk and Stephen Miller are both very young and I wouldn’t want them or anything like them anywhere near government. Bernie is quite old, and I do want him in government…