Former presidential candidate Mitt Romney has just announced that he will not run for re-election in the Senate.
Senator Mitt Romney (76) says he will not seek re-election. He was the Republican presidential candidate in 2012 and lost to Barack Obama.
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Where the experienced politician, who has held public office for 25 years, feels that younger forces must be allowed to decide which direction the country should take.
I the video message says the 76-year-old Republican Mitt Romney that he is stepping aside.
– At the end of a new period, I would be in my mid-80s. Frankly, it’s time for a new generation of leaders, says Romney.
He believes that Joe Biden (80) and Donald Trump (77) should do the same.
Joe Biden in campaign mode for the Democratic candidates in Pennsylvania in 2002.
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Biden’s age makes headlines
Joe Biden’s age and whether he is too old to indulge in another term as president are discussed around American dinner tables.
It is a recurring theme in the election campaign on the Republican side.
American voters, regardless of party, agree on something, according to polls: Joe Biden is too old for another term as president.
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Only a little over 40 percent of the people think Biden is doing a good job, according to measurements published on the website FiveThirtyEight.
That’s about the same number as Donald Trump had at the same time in his presidency.
Opinion polls also shows that three out of four voters are more concerned about Biden’s age than Trump’s.
Should Donald Trump win the election in 2024 and serve for four years, he will become the oldest president in US history
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Former President Donald Trump is as old now as Ronald Reagan was when he moved out of the White House.
In a chronicle in the New York Times, Frank Bruni writes that Trump’s demeanor also shows signs of an old man.
If the election is between Biden and Trump, it will not be an adult decision to reject Biden because he is old, Bruni believes.
But for now, it is Biden who gets to go through the most.
Biden’s weak link
Franklin Foer, the author behind the new biography of Joe Biden, has spoken NBC News that it will not come as a total surprise if the president chooses to withdraw from the election campaign before the new year.
Other commentators say outright that Joe Biden should not run again in 2024. In that case, he will have to change vice president, they say. Biden has rejected that several times.
Kamala Harris is criticized, but is still Joe Biden’s first choice as vice president in the fight for a new term.
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By running for re-election, Biden risks undoing his greatest achievement, which was to stop Trump, writes influential commentator David Ignatius.
I sin spalte i Washington Post Ignatius argues that Biden should step aside because age inhibits him, or the perception of him.
– It will be a wise choice for the country. Time is running out, writes Ignatius and refers to the nomination battle.
The primary elections, where the candidates get to test their leadership skills, start in January. So far, no one is threatening Biden’s candidacy.
Several highlights Vice President Kamala Harris (58) as the weak link.
She has lower turnout than Biden, and when voters think Biden is too old, they look to the vice president.
The White House is trying to improve Kamala Harris’ image. Polls show historically low satisfaction with the vice president.
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Ignatius believes that Kamala Harris has not delivered, while Biden has at least been an effective and successful president.
Former editor of the liberal magazine The New Republic, Andrew Sullivan, believes that Biden’s health is a problem, and that it is evident every time he walks or speaks.
– It’s time to leave the stage, write Sullivan, who endorsed Biden in 2020.
Dianne Feinstein (90) has been a senator since 1992.
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Aging Congress
Many elected officials in the United States have a lot of experience.
The average age of Congress has increased and is now one of the highest. In the House of Representatives, the average is 59 years. In the Senate, the number is 65. The average American is 39 years old.
Veterans like Mitch McConnell (81), Nancy Pelosi (83) and Dianne Feinstein (90) walk, or are rolled, around the corridors of Congress while others are well into retirement.
The leader of the Republicans in the Senate, Mitch McConnell, has also helped to update the discussion around the age and suitability of politicians.
Twice in a month, McConnell has frozen, become numb and mute in front of the press corps.
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