Politics Podcast: How Old Is Too Old For Elected Office?

The San Francisco Chronicle printed an report on Thursday in which a range of Democratic lawmakers and aides recommended that, at age 88, California Sen. Dianne Feinstein was no longer healthy to serve due to a substantial drop in mental acuity. In this installment of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, the crew discusses the politically thorny difficulty of psychological acuity in an increasingly aged U.S. federal government and what People in america think about age boundaries for community workplace.

They also continue to track the styles of candidates former President Trump has endorsed in the 2022 Republican primaries. So considerably, he has endorsed above 100 Senate, Home and gubernatorial candidates, which is not only far more than he endorsed as president in 2020 but also really abnormal for a previous president. One of the frequent themes between the candidates he’s thrown his excess weight behind is that they have sown distrust in the effects of the 2020 election.

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