In a YouGov poll conducted between July 25-29, 59 percent of Republicans surveyed said they would prefer a president under the age of 75. Trump celebrated his 78th birthday in June. Forty percent said they had no preference, and just two percent said they would prefer a president over the age of 75.
Why younger? Why not someone smarte and, empathetic?
because old is generally not where smart and empathetic comes from.
Also you start to get into the area of cognitive and physical decline to the point where you start falling over if you aren’t careful, or just cant really think as well anymore.
Usually someone that encompasses the traits you propose is going to be younger, 60’s probably.
Because Trump loves the poorly educated, has the best brain, and Ayn Rand said altruism is evil.
I guess they’re rounding up on a couple of those because 59+40+2=101.
Anyway… they had younger people running against him and he won. He’s their guy and they can all go to hell with him
Exactly. They are only saying this now because Biden dropped out.
And yes, I am guessing it was a rounding error. There’s always a margin of error on these things after all.
lol. they only like their strong man until he looks weak, which most old men do. in my perfect world, Kamala slaps him during a debate after he makes some dumb sexist remark. seeing him get bitch slapped by a woman would destroy his american tough guy image and guarantee his defeat.
I bet Putin has a lot of videos of Trump getting beat by a black woman.
Upvoted for Riker meme.
Trump can step down and not run. Biden did it. It’s all the rage right now
I’m not quite a lib, but I’d still feel owned if he did, does that count?
Trump (recently) received the nomination from his party, while Biden dropped out before the DNC. I could be wrong but I think it’s a little more problematic for him to drop out, although perhaps that’s just related to RNC self-imposed rules and not any actual laws.
What’s the difference to the voter
IMO doesn’t matter whether they can or can’t, they already attacked Biden for doing it as if he actually was nominated, so that fully puts them into hypocrite land if they do.
But oh wait, they don’t give a fuck about that.
republicans will immediately engage in cognitive dissonance if it means they can make a funny haha argument for something
They had their (MANY MANY MANY MANY MANY) chance(s)
Yeah, they had a proper primary unlike the Dems with the incumbent situation. No one to blame but themselves here.
My sympathy for the Republican party is immeasurable (as in, too small to measure).
Well of course most people would prefer a younger candidate. I’m sure even the candidates wish they were younger. (I wouldn’t mind being younger myself.) That’s not the same thing as preferring to replace the current candidate with a different, younger candidate.
Isn’t preferring a younger president suggesting you want a younger candidate?
Sorry, I rephrased my post a bit. What I meant is that there’s a difference between saying “it would be better if Trump were younger” and “Trump should be replaced by someone who is younger”.
You know who would be a President under 75?
i’d like to point out that she is 21 years older than stephen miller and stephen miller looks like this
nightmare fuel
That’s the shit thing about being pure evil. You age prematurely but live for fucking ever.
see: Mitch McConnell
Even if she serves 2 terms, she’d be younger at the end than Trump was when he started his first one!
“No not like that”
-Republicans
I wish 60 years old didn’t seem so young.
She is 59, you misinformation spreading tankie.😡
smells like someone forgot the /s
She do look good for 59. Maybe I’m just getting old and old is looking younger, but if someone told me she was late 30s-mid 40s I would’ve believed it.
She is black, and I’m told it don’t crack
There’s a pretty good chance that US politics portraits are taken by well funded and skilled photographer(s)
I’m back. Ok, yeah. Not 30s but I wouldn’t think someone was lying to me if they said 40s and that’s still pretty good.
Hmm. I’m sure there’s a phone video out there. BRB.
The oldest and the orangest candidate ever - lots of people are saying it.
This so what people are saying…what people are talking…look…Obama wasn’t a…if Obama was my age he would…sleepy Joe Biden would be rambling…not speaking in a coherent…oh boy biden…he has to be the worst…this is what people are saying…I’m probably the best orator out here today…the bestest because Obama Hussein and laffin kaMALA…sleepy Joe who stole the election…
💀 I think we can all agree, at least the best orator since Abraham Lincoln.
I don’t think I’ve seen a weirder candidate myself. At least Johnson had the decency to grab his own genitals
Sorry repubs… you’re going to have to carry this non-viable fetus to term…
If the Dems get a reroll, I don’t see why the Repubs wouldn’t be allowed one, too.
Excited to see JD Vance at the top of the ticket. That should be fun.
Dems changed to Harris before actually nominating Biden.
Trump is already nominated. Changing at this point would be a much bigger problem for either side.
Even if they somehow did who would take his place? Vance has been very unpopular so far, and they’ve already had a full primary this cycle; we already know they don’t have anyone better than Trump.
Also it would make them hypocrites, not that they care.
Dems changed to Harris before actually nominating Biden.
Show me the election where Harris was at the top of the ballot.
Sooooo… what’s your point?
Trump’s free to drop out and let Vance run for Prez
Almost a fair point; dems may not have rallied around Harris under other circumstances. But she’s only formally run one other time and that was four years ago and against a former VP (Biden). Not quite the same situation today.
Also the line you quoted doesn’t seem to have anything to do with the point you’re trying to make.
A nomination does not mean that the republican party needs to back Trump. They could have simply chose someone else or even remove him from their ticket. It’s all in their control.
A primary is merely to check and see which way the political wind is blowing before the election. And nominations are not written in stone.
They already had their convention in July. That’s why they shit themselves throwing a temper tantrum when the Dems switched, having made an assumption that the Dems wouldn’t just nominate a sitting President.
They already had their convention in July.
Where they made their VP announcement, clearly without an iota of audience testing.
But nothing really stops Trump from withdrawing and ceding the nomination to his VP. Or dying, for that matter.
That’s why they shit themselves throwing a temper tantrum
I suspect that’s more just because Biden would have been easier to beat and they’re sore over not being able to coast to victory.
The Democrats still haven’t had their convention so they still can make whatever chabge they want. If Trump withdraws, the Republican party as a whole would be withdrawing because they already had their convention and chose their representative. Another Democrat can run against Kamala up until the convention, but once the Democratic party chooses their representative, they would also be locked in.
The DNC and RNC aren’t legally bound by the rules they made for themselves. There have been lawsuits in the last 8 years that have established that. They can both do what ever the fuck they want as long as they don’t piss off the really big donors.
I was going to suggest that they could just make Vance the candidate. I’m sure that will work out well for them.
But nothing really stops Trump from withdrawing and ceding the nomination to his VP. Or dying, for that matter.
Besides his crippling narcissism
Because Dems only just now voted and elected Harris. At this point, they are also locked in. Repubs already felated, I mean elected, Cheeto…
They can still have a spontaneous abortion. All they need is for old Donny boy to step down or otherwise become incapacitated
He’s not going to step down, so it will have to be incapacitation which I fully support.
I don’t. He needs to lose and spend the rest of his life in prison, along with most of his children.
Because Dems only just now voted and elected Harris.
I’m not sure what election you participated in, but my ballot listed Joe Biden at the top of the ticket.
At this point, they are also locked in
Nothing forces Trump to be president. He can quit any time he wants.
I’m not sure what election you participated in, but my ballot listed Joe Biden at the top of the ticket.
So this is an opportunity for you to learn how it really works. Harris was just officially voted to be the Dem candidate and that will be official on Monday.
Nothing forces Trump to be president. He can quit any time he wants.
Oh, he could abort himself, but you know that’s never going to happen. The party is stuck with the weirdo until the election, otherwise.
Harris was just officially voted to be the Dem candidate
By whom? Which voter cast a ballot for Harris? Which state did she win?
You need to learn how the process works… you’re being intentionally ignorant which is a form of stupidity.
You need to learn how the process works…
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The process selects a candidate
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The party ejects the candidate in place of a younger, more popular secondary
Me: “Republicans should do this, too”
Lemmy: ten zillion downvotes
Haters gonna hate.
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They’re allowed, but he needs convinced to step down.
repubs had like 10 chances to jettison trump between dropping him from the party, washing their hands of him, supporting the investigations, and voting to impeach… and they rejected all of them to stand by him
Because they actively participated in the deification of Trump among their base, so they know that taking Trump off the ballot would split the party (possibly irreparably).
… would split the party (possibly irreparably)
Especially since it’s a near certainty that Trump would just continue his presidential bid (as a write-in independent if need be).
Guess we are also making fun of them when they say something normal… Wow, they said something normal!
It would have been normal if they had thought that during the primaries and backed any of the people younger than Trump in significant numbers.
But they only feel this way after Biden dropped out.
So yeah, we’re making fun of them.
I was making fun of them too, just in a tounge-in-cheek way.
Ah, gotcha.
Sounds like they need to vote for Kamala!
…they would prefer a president under the age of 75.
Thank you Captain Obvious!
dudes not going to take a hint
