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Originally Posted by jfman
American politics is rigged from the top to ensure they don’t, and if they do they lose.
Just look at the state of Congress.
Harris is their definition of passing the torch to the “next generation”. Even though she’d be 64 by the end of a hypothetical Biden second term, and 72 by the end of the two that followed.
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Wasn't always seen that way just more recently it's gotten so bad.
The median age at inauguration of incoming U.S. presidents is 55 years. The youngest person to become US president was Roosevelt, who, at age 42, succeeded to the office after the assassination of McKinley. The oldest person inaugurated president was Biden, at the age of 78.