Democrats' generational tensions reach boiling point in House primaries

A growing number of young Democrats have launched primary bids against the party’s old guard in recent months, underscoring generational tensions that burst into the open following former Vice President Kamala Harris’s defeat in November.

Former House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) last week drew a primary challenger 50 years his junior in Harry Jarin, who cast the incumbent as representative of “a bygone era.” He follows a number of other young candidates who have launched primary bids against veteran Democratic lawmakers.