American politicians are the oldest in the rich world
A country ranking shows that concerns about age go beyond Joe Biden and Donald Trump
J.D. VANCE, the winner of Donald Trump’s Apprentice-style competition for a running-mate, is an outlier in many ways. He is one of the least experienced vice-presidential picks in American history. Recent surveys have found that roughly half of all respondents did not know him. And, aged 39, he is younger than roughly 90% of America’s lawmakers in Congress.
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