Harry Reid Admits Unspoken Truth: Democrats Are Getting Old
Retirement or the presidential campaign trail in 2020? Oddly enough, that’s a choice some 2020 presidential prospects for the Democratic Party may have to consider.
he conundrum was pointed out by none other than the 77-year-old outgoing Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev. (F, 2%) Washington fixture for the last three decades who retired this month.
During a practice question and answer session with aides before appearing at his last luncheon with Senate Democrats, Reid made some pointed comments about the elderliness of his party’s potential 2020 presidential prospects.
New York Magazine reported:
Another aide brought up Joe Biden’s recent remark that he was thinking about running for president in 2020. “Would you support him?” she inquired.
“It depends on who’s running,” Reid replied. “It appears we’re going to have an old-folks’ home. We’ve got [Elizabeth] Warren; she’ll be 71. Biden will be 78. Bernie [Sanders] will be 79.”
Come to think of it, it might be kind of fun to watch Biden host bingo in the Villages as a 2020 fundraiser. (Warren and Sanders would probably complain the system is rigged.)
Putting that aside, it’s a wonderful thing that Leader Reid said this now, so Republicans don’t have to later.
If anyone with an “R” behind their name had said it, they’d be called “ageist.” Now it’s a bit of common ground Republicans finally may have found with Reid during his final days in Washington. Ha. (For more from the author of “Harry Reid Admits Unspoken Truth: Democrats Are Getting Old” please click HERE)
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