An amazing situation may be arising: a battle not over man against woman for the Democratic Presidential nomination, but instead a battle over age between one of two candidates, both of whom are the oldest ever to announce for President and be seen as serious potential candidates, and a candidate who would be by far the youngest President in American history, with only William Jennings Bryan in 1896 being an actually younger nominee.
This blogger is referring to Joe Biden or Bernie Sanders vs Pete Buttigieg.
Biden would be 78 and 2 months on Inauguration Day; Sanders 79 and four months on Inauguration Day; and Buttigieg 39 years and one day old on Inauguration Day.
Both Biden and Sanders are twice the age of Buttigieg.
Biden and Sanders were born in the World War II era, so they are not technically “Baby Boomers”, those born from the beginning of 1946 to the end of 1964, the era in which we have had three Presidents born in 1946 months apart, with Bill Clinton in August, George W. Bush in July, and Donald Trump in June; along with Barack Obama, born in August 1961.
Buttigieg is part of the Millennial generation born in the 1980s, born in 1982, alongside two other Millennial candidates for President, Eric Swalwell, born in 1980; and Tulsi Gabbard, born in 1981.
Given this blog’s topic touches on age, 88-year-old former Alaska U.S. Sen. Mike Gravel, who is in the running for the 2020 Democratic nomination for president of the United States, hasn’t let age (he turns 89 on May 13) stop him for staying in touch. In this video, Gravel is interviewed by Jimmy Dore about the “Pentagon Papers†and Daniel Ellsberg, “WikiLeaks†and Julian Assange, the Democratic Party Establishment, the military industrial complex and, of course, what has become of current U.S. politics.
https://youtu.be/MG4q_GjsyYw
Mike Gravel is amazing!
I had the opportunity to meet Gravel in 2008 when he came to the college I was teaching at, Broward College.
I introduced him, and am proud to say that I am the proud owner of a photo taken of him and me!
Thanks for sharing this video.
Biden is in now. In his announcement, referring to what happened in Charlottesville, he nails it for me – “this country has lost its soul”.