Gen Z Democrats are moving to oust their “ossifying” party elders in the hopes that the new generation can help beat Donald Trump’s successor in the next presidential race.
Younger Democrats are concerned that the age of some figures, including Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi, is discouraging voters.
At 82, Mr Biden is the oldest serving president in US history, and faced intense criticism over his age and mental acuity during his campaign earlier this year.
Democrats are now hoping to line up a younger candidate to lead the party as the chairman of the Democratic National Committee ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.
“It is a huge problem in the Democratic Party that we have such an ossifying class of leadership that it needs to become a crisis before they leave,” one party operative told Politico on Tuesday.
Contenders for the chairmanship include Ben Wikler, a 43-year-old progressive Democrat who allies believe will inject life into the party’s headquarters. David Hogg, a Gen Z gun rights activist, is thought to be in contention for deputy chairman.
ChanceryTheRapper on November 21st, 2024 at 01:16 UTC »
Look, you lose to a shitty asshole in the presidential race once, that sucks. You lose again to that same shitty asshole when he's even worse and has criminal convictions, then you need to step back.
Having both Bill and Hillary Clinton speak at the DNC this year really showed that the Democratic leadership has not learned shit and thinks they can still win on the same things that got them into the White House in the 1990s, despite all evidence to the contrary. There needs to be a change.
Squirty42069 on November 21st, 2024 at 01:13 UTC »
Gen Z? We don’t even have a good number of Millennials in congress. I think it’s less than 10%.
KingMario05 on November 21st, 2024 at 00:43 UTC »
It's for the best. How many "MUST-WIN!" elections has the DNC flubbed now?