Democrats fight the “geriatric problem”

For 33 years, the “world -famous fisherman” Congressman Jim Klibourna has become a mandatory event for the Democratic Party members, which hopes to do on the national stage. But after the brilliant electoral defeat and with the aging of the ancient guard, some are wondering whether the party’s time has come to make new traditions.

It was over five years ago that the then 79-year-old Klim, the Democratic Queen in the state, gave the then 77-year-old Joe, who was engaged in a very desirable presidential approval. His past elections – like Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton – all won the nomination of the party, if not the White House.

The approval of Klim Biden is believed to help the former Vice President win the main South Carolina and turn the rush into its struggle. Since then, the Democrats had to overestimate their choice for Biden-who had abandoned their viciously, re-election against the backdrop of raising questions about their competence.

After his successor, Vice-President Kamal Harris lost to Donald Trump, many wondered whether he hung for too long. Last month, Biden announced that he had prostate 4 stage cancer, a state of a gloomy forecast, which would submit the national crisis if he had been overclaimed.

Now many in the party, including some of these lunch on roasted fish and white bread at the cliburo collection last Friday, are interested in whether a couple of the party found new blood – especially after three Democrats in Congress died only this year. The losses meant that the slim majority of the Republicans in the congress was backed up, which allowed them to adopt a conflicting bill on Trump’s costs with one vote.

“We have a geriatric problem,” said Ashley McIntar Stewart, specifically noting the last bill on the cost of the home. “We need to include a younger community so that we do not have Republicans by US railways.”

According to a poll last month Axios, more than half of the 30 Democrats in the House under the age of 75 are planning to achieve re -elections next year, including Klibourne, the deadline will end if it is 88 if it wins.

The veteran’s politician mocked the idea of ​​leaving.

“I will respond to the voters of South Carolina,” he said in the media. “I have been with them all the month, and none of them told me that they believe I was too old. Each of them told me, please don’t leave.”

He also did not have a second assumption whether Biden would retreat earlier, saying that his children and grandchildren do not care the choice of the former president.

“They’re going to ask me what you did to make sure I got a better life,” he said. “That’s all I concentrate on.”

Democratic voters tend to take risks that are outdated as elderly politicians, preferring youth management experience and vitality. In 2024, only two Democratic leaders of the congress lost their nomination, and both Kari Bush from Missouri and Jamaal Bowman from New York were relative aliens under the age of 50.

Republicans also have their own elderly crop, including a 78-year-old president. But the electoral exposures in 2020 and Biden’s health have caused a certain self -analysis.

William Godvin, a Democrat from Chicago, visited the South Carolina and stopped at the fish to see Klibourne and hear from two Democrats Governors Tim Waltz from Minnesota and Wes Muland from Maryland to speak. He said he respected the wisdom of elderly politicians such as Klibourne and Biden, but his party needs a youth movement.

“We need activists,” he said. “We need energy from different stretches of society – not only the age – to come to the truly arms and work to win the true elections.”

There are signs that some young starting attention are carefully treated: a 39-year-old chief of staff in San Francisco in San Francisco, a 39-year-old former chief of staff of Alexandria Okasi-Cartes. 37-year-old Jake Rakov follows the place of his former boss, a 15-year-old participant, who is engaged in the 70th representative of Brad Sherman.

Voters crave “new ideas and new energy to force Congress to actually work again” In April, he told a local news reporter.

On the fishery molars, winning the elections after the frustration of the last year and the problems of Trump’s aggressive agenda were the focus of the speeches of two Democratic governors, who are also potential hopes of the 2028 president.

Last year, Waltz, a 61-year-old, who was his vice president, may not be quite a fresh face looking for some in the party, although he received a warm welcome from the South Carolina audience. Moore Maryland-46-year-old military veteran, who is only the third governor of black in the history of the United States-calls the most animated answer when he said that the “relay” was in the hands of his generation.

“We are going to send a message that the whole country will hear,” he said. “This is our time. This is our moment. We will not go, we will not shake, we will not blink. We will win like those who come to us.”

The Democrats may have won the past, but last year’s defeat was especially Jarka, and the first months of Trump, the authorities put the party into a deep hole, and many years of work needed to restore state programs that support the Democrats, and replenish the work rolls cut by Republicans.

“I gave Donald Trump a loan for that,” Waltz said. “It is moving so fast and so fast for bad things that we are better ready to move quickly and quickly to good things.”

Waltz said the Democrats needed to have “tough conversations” about how to return voters who moved to Trump last year.

A few years later, the South Carolina will again become the main battlefield in the struggle for the nomination of the democratic president. The view of the candidate, which goes to the top, will be partly determined by the conversations – including balance the age and experience of working with young people and energy – it takes place at this fishing molary and other democratic meetings across the country in the following days.