Democrats are relying on a familiar strategy for key 2026 Senate races: old candidates. @russellberman.bsky.social on why the party thinks it’s the best option:
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... I don't care if they are old if they are good. They just better not be TOOOO old.
aug 16, 2025, 1:25 pm • 1 0 • view
WTF?! 🤬
aug 16, 2025, 1:31 pm • 0 0 • view
I just want whoever will WIN.
aug 16, 2025, 1:35 pm • 0 0 • view
Therein lies the crux. Old folks won’t get us where we need to go.
aug 16, 2025, 1:44 pm • 1 0 • view
Democrats will be held accountable for what will come
aug 16, 2025, 1:40 pm • 0 0 • view
Why are we running only old candidates? We need young ones as well.
aug 16, 2025, 1:12 pm • 2 0 • view
Because old ones win. Young candidates get picked apart by young voters expecting perfection. Especially if they are female and not white.
aug 16, 2025, 1:57 pm • 0 0 • view
Don’t seek reelection if your new term will begin after age 70 (72? 75?) seems like a good practice.
aug 16, 2025, 1:21 pm • 1 0 • view
And they are hypocrites giving candidates grief over living in subsidize appointments while they get sweetheart deals themselves height of hypocrisy Hakeem nypost.com/2022/01/23/r...
aug 16, 2025, 1:12 pm • 6 0 • view
Like this guy? nypost.com/2025/08/09/u...
aug 16, 2025, 1:16 pm • 1 0 • view
Both hypocrites
aug 16, 2025, 1:16 pm • 1 0 • view
Mamdani lives in New York. He is far from rich. I don't understand why people think you need to be poor to be a socialist. A billionaire proposing to decimate his own wealth in favor of socialist policies could just walk into the White House.
aug 16, 2025, 1:25 pm • 3 0 • view
NY Post once again reeking of desperation. “He’s sooo rich with his… $142k salary!!!!”… as if you have to be poor to support more and better social services.
aug 16, 2025, 1:44 pm • 0 0 • view
142 is not a lot in my area🤔
aug 16, 2025, 1:45 pm • 0 0 • view
Not just salary bruh
aug 16, 2025, 3:09 pm • 0 0 • view
What are his other sources of income (as if any of this even matters)
aug 16, 2025, 3:40 pm • 0 0 • view
Disappointing
aug 16, 2025, 2:00 pm • 0 0 • view
Ageism much?
aug 16, 2025, 1:27 pm • 0 0 • view
ugh and argh
aug 16, 2025, 1:19 pm • 0 0 • view
A sweeping generalization. Every dem district needs to present a sure-bet candidate that WILL win. Not old, not young but a WINNER
aug 16, 2025, 1:21 pm • 0 0 • view
But what we are trying to avoid is those winners dying within the first few months of their terms, like what happened to 3 dems in Congress in 2025 (two of whom were diagnosed with cancer before elected).
aug 16, 2025, 1:26 pm • 4 0 • view
I'm 64, and people my age have no business being in government. We need energetic young candidates with bold new ideas. Old white men have run things for far too long. Let's get some bright young people in there and watch them change the world.
aug 16, 2025, 2:32 pm • 1 0 • view
The senate is a particularly difficult beast. Only 1/3 of the seats are up at a specific time and unless some of those seats happen to be among rising stars, your best bet is to run people with a proven record of winning. We need to fill the House with youthful energy before we can in the Senate.
aug 16, 2025, 1:27 pm • 0 0 • view
I guess they like losing. The old candidates need to retire
aug 16, 2025, 1:14 pm • 0 0 • view
Nuts! They won’t learn. And on the house side Jeffries is a very poor communicator!
aug 16, 2025, 1:38 pm • 0 0 • view
The Democrats would rather be the captain of a sinking ship before they'll let someone young take control. A mistake they will be content to make until all is ash and rubble. The biggest thing that helped Trump win wasn't trump voters, it was apathetic leftists. Looks like we're inf or a repeat.
aug 16, 2025, 1:19 pm • 5 0 • view
Damn. It!
aug 16, 2025, 3:05 pm • 0 0 • view
I do not care if the candidates are reconstituted fossils - we have a country to save.
aug 16, 2025, 1:22 pm • 0 0 • view
Exactly why I hope Ohio Dems find a younger candidate than Sherrod Brown
aug 16, 2025, 1:34 pm • 0 0 • view
Being critical of Dems political strategy is a waste of time. Due to Trump & team it’s no longer “politics as usual”. Trump’s greed/incompetence/vindictiveness plus loyalists he’s chosen to serve with are blatantly incompetent. Money-making-media critical of Dems are either very rich or very stupid.
aug 16, 2025, 1:34 pm • 0 0 • view
Harris won Maine by 7 points No Republican presidential candidate has won there since 1988 And the only candidate Democrats even seem to be considering to challenge Collins is a 77 year old who doesn’t want to do it This should be a wakeup call to the party. This isn’t working.
aug 16, 2025, 1:35 pm • 2 0 • view
Because the minority leader is an old out of touch guy.
aug 16, 2025, 1:34 pm • 0 0 • view
Old, stale and pro-genocide. Complicit.
aug 16, 2025, 1:38 pm • 4 0 • view
Not all of them!😡
aug 16, 2025, 3:05 pm • 0 0 • view
Stupid!!!
aug 16, 2025, 1:11 pm • 3 0 • view
Cause they are dumb. Also, those old candidates are already bought. Younger people have actual values.
aug 16, 2025, 2:59 pm • 0 0 • view
WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? Cooper and Brown are old. But the guy in IA, the pediatrician in SC, the dude in NE are not. Who’s running in MI and NH?
aug 16, 2025, 1:35 pm • 2 0 • view
Just keep stepping on that rake, everyone.
aug 16, 2025, 1:12 pm • 10 0 • view
If Dems want to win back NC next year, Roy Cooper is simply the best option, regardless of age.
aug 16, 2025, 1:17 pm • 4 1 • view