We have a good bench for 2028 but we need to build our bench for future national tickets. We need to elect senators in purple states that can use their incumbency as an advantage to hold that seat for more than an extra 1-2 terms. There are a bare handful of cases where a freshman senator in their mid 60s or later mak…
We have a good bench for 2028 but we need to build our bench for future national tickets. We need to elect senators in purple states that can use their incumbency as an advantage to hold that seat for more than an extra 1-2 terms. There are a bare handful of cases where a freshman senator in their mid 60s or later makes sense.
It's also not universal but younger officials are often far more willing and able to recognize the vileness of the modern republican party and that we need to respond to them more forcefully and more seriously rather than with the same old congeniality of decades past.
Her not having faced voters since 2006 is an equally large issue.
Both are issues IMO.
We have a good bench for 2028 but we need to build our bench for future national tickets. We need to elect senators in purple states that can use their incumbency as an advantage to hold that seat for more than an extra 1-2 terms. There are a bare handful of cases where a freshman senator in their mid 60s or later makes sense.
It's also not universal but younger officials are often far more willing and able to recognize the vileness of the modern republican party and that we need to respond to them more forcefully and more seriously rather than with the same old congeniality of decades past.
Her not having faced voters since 2006 is an equally large issue.