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People mentioned in this article are very old.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), 81 Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), 90 President Joe Biden, 80 Former President Donald Trump, 77

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[โ€“] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You need money to run and young people done have the money.

That's one issue.

Another is that most people are unlikely to vote for someone with little-to-no life experience.

As mush as youth and enthusiasm are useful traits, so is experience working in a variety of tasks and situations. (Both employment and volunteer/community service types of experience)

Electing the equivalent of student council candidates won't improve the situation.

[โ€“] worfamerryman@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

In this context a 40 year old person would count as a young person.