Gen Z in the House

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Politics, Daily News, News

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🗓️ 22 November 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Florida’s Maxwell Frost, 25, is the first member of Generation Z elected to Congress. He tells us what he plans to get done. This episode was produced by Siona Peterous, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard with help from Matt Collette, engineered by Efim Shapiro, and hosted by Noel King. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The day 83-year-old Steny Hoyer of Maryland was reelected to Congress this month, he
0:06.8	tweeted a link to his op-ed about Democrats putting hashtag People Over Politics.
0:12.2	84-year-old Maxine Waters of California waited three days to tweet, then sent a message
0:17.3	on Veterans Day.
0:18.6	85-year-old Bill Pasgrell of New Jersey thanked the people of the greatest state in America,
0:23.5	hashtag Jersey Strong, and 25-year-old Maxwell Alejandro Frost of Florida tweeted, in all caps,
0:30.2	I'm going to see at the 1975 on Thursday to celebrate lots of exclamation points.
0:35.7	It'll be a while before we know exactly what role young voters played in the 2022 midterms,
0:40.6	but one of them won an election.
0:42.6	Coming up on today's point, an interview with Florida's Gen Z Congressman.
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1:41.9	My name is Maxwell Alejandro Frost.
1:43.7	I'm the Democratic nominee for Congress in Florida's Tempest Congressional District.
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