Well, howdy there, Internet Pupil it spell again.

So today, we're going to talk about more Democratic generational shifts.

Democratic Representative Jerry Nadler, the longest serving rep from New York in the House, will not seek re-election.

Recently, we saw long-serving Democratic

Congressman Lloyd Doggett, who has been in the House since the 1900s, say that if the new

gerrymandered Texas Maps withstand legal challenges, he would not seek re-election and allow a younger

candidate to take the district.

At the time, I said we'd likely see more older Democrats step aside for younger candidates.

So this pattern was expected. I didn't expect it to be Nadler.

In an interview, Nadler said that watching Biden drop out of the 2024 race was kind of a moment of

decision for him. It led him to the conclusion that there was a, quote, necessity for generational

change in the party. He went on to say, quote, I'm not saying we should change over the entire party, but I think a certain amount of change is very helpful, especially when we face the challenge of Trump and his incipient fascism.

That's remarkably similar to Doggett's statement of quote.

I prefer to devote the coming months to fighting Trump tyranny and serving Austin.

That's not where the similarities end.

They're both 78 years old and have both been serving in Congress since the 90s.

Nadler is probably best known nationally for serving as an impeachment

manager during Trump's first impeachment.

Ugh, what a sentence? First impeachment.

Nadler is a major figure in the Democratic establishment, and New York's 12th district is a ridiculously

safe blue district. Democratic candidates routinely win 80 to 90% of the vote there. I think the last

time it fell below that was for Obama in 2012, when he only received 78% of the vote. Winning 78% of the vote is a bad day in that district.

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