WASHINGTON — Democrats gained their first challenger to Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) Thursday, with 30-year-old P.G. Sittenfeld, a member of the Cincinnati City Council, jumping into the 2016 race and betting that Ohioans want someone new in the stodgy Senate.
“I believe that I have got the right kind of experience,” Sittenfeld told The Huffington Post in an interview Thursday morning. “There is good experience, and there is bad experience — and bad experience is being a Washington insider who, for more than a quarter of a century, stacked the deck against the middle class.”
If elected, Sittenfeld would be one of the youngest members of the chamber, where the U.S. Constitution sets the minimum age for service at 30. He faces an uphill battle against Portman, 59, who already had $5.8 million in his campaign war chest as of early January.
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