"Good things are going to happen in this country, and it just might take a different generation to help lead us there," Vivek Ramaswamy said a few minutes into his "fair-side chat" with Governor Kim Reynolds on August 12. The youngest candidate in the GOP presidential field (he turned 38 last week) regularly reminds audiences that he is the first millennial to run for president as a Republican.
But here's the thing: a large majority of Iowa GOP caucus-goers are Gen X or older.
The Republican Party of Iowa does not publish details about caucus-goer demographics, but entrance or exit polls from the last three competitive caucuses give us a rough idea. Those surveys indicate that GOP caucus-goers under age 45 comprised only about 28 percent of participants in 2016, about 31 percent in 2012, and about 26 percent in 2008.
It's a pretty long article but it tells you all you need to know about this guy: his 10 Commandments are especially dire, because he's essentially distilled everything Republicans believe into bite-sized talking points. They're all nonsense, but I could totally see these resonating with people who have adult children that don't talk to them anymore.
If Trump actually gets sent to prison before the caucuses, this guy might have the swag to replace him.