• ‘Maybe Gen Z Is Just Kinder’: How America’s Youngest Voters are Shaping Politics

  • Oct 26 2022
  • Length: 35 mins
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‘Maybe Gen Z Is Just Kinder’: How America’s Youngest Voters are Shaping Politics

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  • Members of Gen Z (Americans under 26 years old) have come of age during the Trump presidency and a pandemic, in an era of protests over police violence, attacks on reproductive rights, rising economic inequality, and frequent school shootings. These young people are calling for major changes, but many aren’t confident that politicians will act with the urgency necessary to carry them out. As Gen Z voters consider the midterms, they are prioritizing the issues, not party allegiance.

    But with a history of low turnout, and disenchantment with politics across the spectrum, will young voters be moved enough by the issues to show up at the polls? And if so, will there be enough of them to sway decisive races?

    Today on “The Argument,” Jane Coaston convenes three voters in their early 20s to talk about how their families and communities have affected their politics, what matters most to them at the ballot box, and what they wish older Americans and politicians understood about people their age.

    (A full transcript of the episode will be available midday on the Times website.)
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