Ed Kilgore to Dems: Please don't nominate someone older than Trump

[Rookie Yinzer]

I'm not particulary eager for either of them to be the nominee but they were both in contention for the nomination (privately in Biden's case) in 2016. They would have theoretically ran for re-election in 2020. They do not have to serve a second term.

Either way, if their age is truly an issue then people will simply decline to vote for them. Over dramatic op-eds will not be a deterrent if the people truly want them.

[Rookie Yinzer]

Either way, if their age is truly an issue then people will simply decline to vote for them. Over dramatic op-eds will not be a deterrent if the people truly want them.

He's suggesting that it might end up sinking them in the general election even if it doesn't sink them in the primary.  (I'm not saying he's right.  But that's the case he's making.)

"If their age is truly an issue then people will simply decline to vote for them."  Well yes, but if you, as a primary voter, think that something might end up being enough of an issue in the general election that other voters will simply "decline to vote for" the candidate in question, then that could be a legit reason not to support them in the primary, no?

As long as Biden or Sanders don't go missing on the campaign trail for weeks or have video of them being propped up by Secret Service before being thrown in a van like a slab of meat they will be fine.

[Rookie Yinzer]

Pick a good VP and it's no problem. That's literally what the VP is there for.

Correct. Especially if Sanders or Biden decline to run for a second term (which I think both would do if they were elected)--- their VP would be the de facto nominee going into 2024.