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Because the Constitution differentiates between the requirements to be elected senator and to hold office as a senator—and the minimum age applies only to holding office.

The stakes are different in a congressional confirmation hearing, when a nominee’s fitness to hold office must be scrutinized by senators.

The 67-year-old helped set up the opposition Civic Party in 2006 and by 2012 she won a seat in LegCo after she gave up British citizenship to hold office.

That said, Harris has in recent weeks started emphasizing the idea that Trump is unfit to hold office, a stance that makes sense given her campaign’s reportedly data-driven belief that it can still win more votes from Republican-leaning women who are turned off by Trump’s personality.

They said they also take his threats against them as more proof he should never hold office again, and as evidence of the broader menace he would pose to anyone else who dared stand in his way.