Gretchen Whitmer: “There was 21 year old, you know, Alexander Hamilton and 70…”

“We do not have that sense of community that I think George Washington helped us create when he was the nation's, you know, first president. When you look at the founding fathers, the Average age was 44. There was 21 year old, you know, Alexander Hamilton and 70 year old Benjamin Franklin and everyone else was somewhere in, in between. And I think about young people today and the, the numbness that many of them describe that it doesn't matter who your leader is because everyone's in their political corners really focused on solving problems or finding common ground.” (01:08–01:17)

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