For the first time, the DNC welcomes influencers to the stage
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🗓️ 21 August 2024
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She has over a million followers across TikTok, Instagram and other accounts, in an age where more young people are learning the news through social media.
But she never imagined that her "very working-class" upbringing would lead her not only to the DNC — but in front of it.
We hear from the Texas native ahead of her speech to the convention.
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| 0:00.0 | The Democratic National Convention this week has seen some heavyweight speakers and some viral moments. |
| 0:07.0 | For years, Donald Trump did everything in his power to try to make people fear us. |
| 0:13.4 | There was of course President Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, |
| 0:16.1 | and former President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama. |
| 0:19.9 | Who's going to tell him that the job he's currently seeking might just be one of those black jobs? |
| 0:25.0 | And there was a young woman named Deja Fox from Tucson, Arizona. |
| 0:30.0 | That's where I was born and raised by a single mom. I was a free lunch kid raised in public housing and I got my health care at Planned Parenthood. |
| 0:47.0 | She's one of more than 200 content creators that the DNC has credentialed this year. |
| 0:53.0 | For reference, the Republican National Convention credentialed more than 70 online personalities. |
| 0:58.0 | Fox has tens of thousands of followers on Tik-Tock and Instagram. |
| 1:02.0 | She worked on the first |
| 1:03.4 | Kamala Harris presidential bid. Because of policies that lift people up, I walked |
| 1:09.5 | through the gates of my dream school as a first generation college student. |
| 1:15.0 | People my age are making big decisions about our lives and we deserve a president who has our back. |
| 1:25.0 | This year is the first time the DNC has given credentials to digital content |
| 1:30.0 | creators or influencers, people with big followings on social media platforms who don't necessarily |
| 1:35.4 | worry about journalistic balance the same way traditional news outlets do. |
| 1:40.0 | The Democratic Party describes this access as leveling the playing field between content |
| 1:45.5 | creators and traditional media. |
| 1:47.8 | Dejah Fox told NPR, she sees it as a signal to young people that the future of politics and political figures will look different |
| 1:55.8 | with Gen Z. |
| 1:57.4 | Consider this. |
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