If Bernie Sanders is the nominee Trump will get a 2nd term (and America will be over).

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155. Sanders would turn 80 in his first nine months. (We have the same B-day, but not year.)

My candidate, Warren, seems unusually fit for her age--mentally and physically very agile, plus she's 8 years younger than Sanders-- but I do wish she were a bit younger. Biden will be 78 in Nov, and Bloomberg will be be 78 in two days! I'm younger than Elizabeth Warren by five years, and in addition to my extensive lack of any other presidential qualifications, I'm also too old. Again, Warren seems to be in great shape (much better than I am!), and I will happily vote for her, but I don't think it's ageist to consider age, especially for those approaching 80.

I voted for Sanders for governor (I think he got about 10%) when I lived in VT in the 1970s, and I followed his political career with interest and support after that. (I took my family to meet him at a book signing in Berkeley in the late 90s, and we talked about VT.) I started out 2016 supporting him, but switched to Clinton by the CA primary. Like you, I hoped he wouldn't run this time, and have a lot of apprehension about his prospects as nominee. The UK will now have Boris-effin-Johnson for five more years! We can't really afford another minute of the MAGAt King, much less another term.