There was a time in politics — 2024 to be exact — when Democratic activists and elected officials spoke in hushed tones about the decline of their aging leaders, including former President Joe Biden, if they spoke about it at all.

But with President Donald Trump back in the White House and a growing admission that Biden was not in shape to run for reelection, if he was in shape to still be president at all, the era of Democrats patiently waiting for elderly leaders to move along is over.

Nowhere in the country is that more evident than in Georgia’s 13th Congressional District, where 79-year-old Rep. David Scott is facing five ambitious primary challengers, who all say he is no longer delivering for voters he’s served since 2003.

It’s a new attitude toward Scott, who has long been respec

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