Duh, six presidents held office with no prior experience.Have you never had a job? Never held a job interview?
Those are the basic qualifications to get someone in the door. After that it is up to the people doing the hiring, in this case the citizens of Az, to examine the rest of the person's to be able to do the job in a proficient manner. Lake had no experience or education or training to suggest she was up for the task of running a state.
Then there's this:
Why More Inexperienced Candidates Are Running — And Winning
When you have a toothache, you call a dentist; when you have a leaky faucet, you call a plumber. You want someone with on-the-job experience dealing with the ch…
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