There are 6 teenage boys running for governor in Kansas

Tyler Ruzich (C), 17, of Prairie Village, Kansas, flanked by Jack Bergeson, 16, of Wichita and Dominic Scavuzzo, 17, of Leawood speaks during a forum with the three other teenage candidates f
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Kansas does not have a legal minimum age for the office of governor, and for the 2018 race, six teenagers have decided to avail themselves of this legal loophole to seek their state's highest administrative office before they themselves can vote.

All six are boys aged 16 or 17. Four are running in the Republican primary — Tyler Ruzich, Dominic Scavuzzo, Joseph Tutera, and Ethan Randleas, the latter a libertarian on the GOP ballot — while just one, Jack Bergeson, is a Democrat. A sixth, Aaron Coleman, is running on the Green Party ticket, though the other boys say they are not sure he is still campaigning.

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Bonnie Kristian

Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.