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valleyrogue

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11. Eighteen years his junior.

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Sun Nov 30, 2025, 03:46 PM

Nov 30

It is not too fondly looked at, especially not these days. Big age gaps DO matter.

This is totally calculated because he thinks he can't get elected president if he never marries.

He can't get elected anyway because he has some baggage when he was mayor of Newark. He completely trashed the teachers there.

Some of us have very long memories.

He needs to stay put.

ETA: I just want to add that before being a US senator, he was a member of the neoliberal Democrats for Education Reform and was a big advocate for charter schools and vouchers. That is disqualifying for the presidency in my book even as he shifted his views when he started getting into the big time of national politics.

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