I was unfortunately not a young innocent American teen. And I know it is not illegal to be interested in teens of legal age. I have no problem with him running nor winning.
I wish I did live in the old fashioned world of the south back then.
I still think the seeking out of teens in the malls etc was inappropriate but he seems to have stopped upon marriage. Not all of them do.
“...seeking out teens in the malls...”
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I think that, as well as the “banning” canard, has been pretty well debunked.
Mall manager says that never happened.
The young American teen girls I grew up with were far more aware of the nature of male/female interaction, (which is not to say, strictly, sex) than the boys their age, and even those a few years older. And that maturity wasn't even confined to the girls one would assume were more used to male attention.
Or perhaps I was just uniquely naive.