The 2020 DNC primaries came down to Biden and Sanders, who would be 78 and 79 when taking office.

Not only does this seem strange for Democrats, specifically, since they are the "youth" party, demographically, but Biden and Sanders are also *extreme* outliers, historically, 8 and 9 years older, respectively, than Trump (when taking office), who broke the record himself.

This is a histogram of US presidents' ages when they took office:
[![enter image description here][1]][1]

What's going on here? If someone had asked me in 2017, I'd predict the opposite societal trends, because of social media.



  [1]: https://i.sstatic.net/aYvCB.png