… Debate about the age of the party’s leadership is likely to grow more heated over the next year, both as that nomination process heats up and as Democrats in Congress intensify their confrontations with Trump. On both fronts the party faces the same paradox: almost all of the Democrats’ most familiar and powerful faces are graying while it is growing more reliant on younger voters to win elections.
That disjuncture is likely to sharpen questions about whether Democrats can maximize mobilization of their increasingly youthful coalition without a leadership that better reflects it. CONT.
Ronald Brownstein, CNN