Chapter 4: Gen-Z Voters in Orange County

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🗓️ 3 October 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Are young voters the key to the midterms? We hear from disillusioned Gen-Z voters in Orange County, California as well as their Member of Congress, Katie Porter. Then Data For Progress’ Evangel Penumaka, organizer and former Texas Democratic Senate candidate Cristina Tzintzún-Ramirez, and John Della Volpe of Harvard Kennedy School join Jon to dig into what the voters had to say. If you want to learn more about how you can take action in the fight for our democracy, head over to Vote Save America and Next Gen America: https://votesaveamerica.com/midterm-madness/ https://nextgenamerica.org/

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0:00.0	Democrats like to point the finger at the Republicans and say those are the, you know, the old, the white, the rich, the dudes, right?
0:06.9	And we are the diverse party.
0:09.2	When it comes to age, I wouldn't point that finger so fast at the other side.
0:14.5	Because we actually have a big problem with that in Congress.
0:19.3	That's Katie Porter, a member of Congress from Orange County, California,
0:22.6	talking about the Democratic Party's relationship with younger voters.
0:25.7	It's not like the Democrats are, you know, running around on burdenless scooters and the Republicans are in those,
0:32.7	I phone and I can't get up things.
0:34.2	I mean, come on.
0:35.3	Like, it's pretty much all old.
0:37.8	I'm 48.
0:38.8	I am in the future forum for young people.
0:43.6	I'm not young.
0:44.5	I've had Botox multiple times.
0:46.8	I am not young.
0:48.8	As you can tell, Congresswoman Porter is a bit different from most of her colleagues in the best possible way.
0:54.0	She's funny.
0:55.2	Doesn't take herself too seriously.
0:56.9	Talks like a normal human being.
0:58.7	And she's repeatedly gone viral for one of the most low tech forms of communication imaginable.
1:03.9	A whiteboard.
1:05.9	Um, do you know what this number is?
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