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Too old to run for president? Age is not what it used to be

By calling for cognitive testing of any politician older than 75, Nikki Haley is engaging in age discrimination.

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US President Joe Biden's successful State of the Union address gave his team confidence that he still has a lot of fight left.

US President Joe Biden's successful State of the Union address gave his team confidence that he still has a lot of fight left.

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Julianna Goldman

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If there was any doubt that age was going to be a major issue in the 2024 presidential campaign, Ms Nikki Haley just erased it.

In announcing her campaign for the

Republican presidential nomination,

the 51-year-old former governor of South Carolina proposed “mandatory mental competency tests for politicians over 75 years old”.

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