Gretchen Whitmer: “When you look at the founding fathers, the average age was…”

“I think it is, you know, we are polarized. 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.” (01:03–01:09)

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