A House member is always preferable to a Senator.
Wasn’t the last Congresscritter elected in the 1800’s? I don’t think that is an accurate statement.
I didn’t say that congressmen get elected. I said a congressman is preferable to a senator.
Senators are elitists and aristocrats who are always hungry for executive power. That’s why so many run for president, and why so many fail to get there.
Presidents who spent a lot of time in the senate weren’t all that great. Harry Truman is the exception.
Polk was Speaker of the House and was a great president, though he was also a governor. Clay ran three times and never made it. Garfield did but was assassinated.
Governors are always preferable to members of congress but I’d prefer a House member over a senator any day.