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The Hill reports:
Former House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) received a primary challenge Thursday from volunteer firefighter and former “Jeopardy!” contestant Harry Jarin, who is seeking to make age a centerpiece of the campaign.
In a statement announcing his bid, Jarin, 35, said Hoyer, 85, “represents a bygone era of politics that isn’t working” and that congressional seats should not be treated as “lifetime appointments.”
“Politicians in their late 80s like Steny Hoyer simply don’t know how to communicate in the era of social media,” he continued. “Democrats have to recognize how badly we’ve failed and change course if we want to win.”
Read the full article. Hoyer hasn’t said if he’ll run again.
Steny Hoyer (D-MD) has drawn a primary challenger with a pointed message about the 85-year-old: Hoyer is too old to run again.
Harry Jarin, a 35-year-old volunteer firefighter said the longtime incumbent is “still operating in this 1980s information environment.”
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— Saigonbond (@ogsaigonbond.bsky.social) May 29, 2025 at 10:27 AM
I’m Harry Jarin. I’m running for Congress in Maryland’s 5th district against Steny Hoyer, the longest-tenured Democrat in Congress, who’s been in the seat since 1981, before most of us were born.
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— harryMD5 (@harry_md5) May 29, 2025