Four facts about the generation gap in the GOP field

1) Rand Paul was in high school when George Pataki was first elected to office — mayor of Peekskill, N.Y., in 1981.

2) Jeb Bush had been out of elected office for 6 years before Ted Cruz was sworn in for his first elected position (January 2013).

3) Scott Walker is far closer in age to Ivanka Trump (14 years older) than to Donald Trump (21 years younger).

4) When Marco Rubio was born (1971), Jim Gilmore was fighting in Vietnam.

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