In a bold move to shake up the election, Politico’s co-founder and CEO Jim VandeHei Monday night suggested that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg be drafted to run for president, running in a new “Innovation Party.”
But he muffed Constitution 101 in his plan: Article II Section 1 requires that the president be at least 35 years old and Zuckerberg is just 31, born on May 14, 1984.
He would be 32 on Inauguration Day, too young to meet the very basic Constitutional demands of the job.
POLITICO founder @JimVandeHei suggests Mark Zuckerberg/Sheryl Sandberg third party ticket: https://t.co/fliYXKBWlV
— Tré Goins-Phillips (@tregp) April 26, 2016
The Wall Street Journal posted VandeHei’s blog. In it, the outgoing Politico chief hits Washington and establishment politicians.
He also suggested another name for the draft movement, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, 46.
He wrote:
Right now, millions of young people are turned on by a 74-old-year socialist scolding Wall Street; millions of others by a reality-TV star with a 1950s view of women. Why not recruit Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg or Sheryl Sandberg to head a third-party movement? Maybe we can convince Michael Bloomberg to help fund the movement with the billions he planned to spend on his own campaign—and then recruit him to run Treasury and advise the president.
I will even throw out a possible name for the movement: The Innovation Party. Who is against innovation, especially when winning campaigns are almost always about the future?
All it needs is a candidate.
Paul Bedard, the Washington Examiner’s “Washington Secrets” columnist, can be contacted at [email protected]
