I hope to be able to poll more on it in the future. Some interesting gender specific findings in a January survey from AEI, but def curious how this evolves!
www.aei.org/research-pro...
New: a majority of Americans under 45 say it's important to date or marry someone with the same political views. It matters less and less as Americans age.
Read & listen to my latest on the complicated relationship between politics and finding looove ♥️
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My look into the early campaigns of 5 young Democratic candidates challenging incumbents
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my belated post-election next steps at NPR! add me to your lists/reach out/drop me a line!!! 💕✨🥯
If you’re a young person who felt left out of the election or let down by the candidates over Gaza, I’m hoping to talk to you today. DMs open
On this Inauguration day, I take a look at how anti-Trump organizers are feeling about activism in his second term
www.npr.org/2025/01/20/n...
Follow NPR's coverage of Pete Hegseth's Senate hearing here
www.npr.org/2025/01/14/g...
From The Up and Up, a newsletter focused on Gen Z politics and culture by Rachel Janfaza: www.theupandup.us
"Of all 535 members of the Congress, just 11 are currently 35-years-old or younger. That’s a whopping 2%"
Maxwell Frost (FL-10), who is 27, remains the only Gen Z member of Congress
Vice President Harris is giving a speech directed at young Americans today.
It comes after she underperformed with voters under 30 last month. (She won the group, but compared to President Biden's 2020 performance, her margin dropped by 13 points.)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBQv...
I’ll stop for now, but more to come digging into the voter trends we saw this election.
& some reporting on Capitol Hill as I help out our team there!
I also reported on some of the cracks in support for Harris among young voters and voters of color
www.npr.org/2024/10/23/n...
All year I’ve been spotlighting how young voters were feeling leading up to the election. Here’s a snapshot from western PA
www.npr.org/2024/10/29/n...
One of my favorite pieces this year — and the last feature I did before the election — on first formerly incarcerated first time voters.
www.npr.org/2024/11/03/n...
My first post election look at the youth vote. More to come
Biden won big with young voters. This year, they swung toward Trump in a big way
www.npr.org/2024/11/07/g...
Haven’t been here in a while but I’ll try it again 🤗. Sharing some recent work I’ve been up to belowwwww
Hi! I'm officially heading to NPR's 2024 elections team to cover young and new voters as a political reporter!
It's coverage I've done for a while, but now I'm saying goodbye to producing the NPR Politics Podcast, and I'll be reporting full-time
Add me to your lists! Reach out! YAY
They have different battles. Wahl leads in a solid red state. Clayton is in a purple one. But they both head into 2024 with strong goals of broadening party support, and they say their age helps with that.
On the Democratic side, we talked to Anderson Clayton, who’s 25. She’s the youngest state party chair of either party.
Listen below
It’s part of a 2 part series on youth leadership in state party politics.
A look at the youngest GOP party chair in the country, John Wahl, who is 37.
Latest from me and @ximenabustillo.bsky.social
https://www.npr.org/2023/09/07/1196635596/alabama-republican-party-john-wahl-trump-desantis-gop-black-voters-young-voters
NEW: Gun control activist David Hogg is announcing a new group focused on getting young people into state and federal office.
It’s called Leaders We Deserve. And I spoke with him about it.
https://www.npr.org/2023/08/09/1191455776/young-voters-david-hogg-pac-campaign-elections-genz-millennial
The GOP faces a tough battle with recruiting young voters
But among young people already in the Republican camp, where do they stand more than a year out from the election?
I checked in with some of them
https://www.npr.org/2023/07/19/1188528155/young-conservatives-trump-desantis-voting-2024
This made me real lol 😂
We’ll be on the NPR Politics Pod this afternoon to talk about it.
And on the RADIO and podcast world this Sunday on All Things Considered.
Where does rural Gen Z stand? @ximenabustillo.bsky.social and I went down to North Carolina, and got a group together to talk about it.
https://www.npr.org/2023/07/14/1185826401/rural-voters-lean-red-young-voters-lean-blue-so-whats-a-young-rural-voter-to-do
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