Gen Z Is Getting Ready To Vote. Are Political Parties Speaking To Them?
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🗓️ 9 September 2020
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Gen Z voters in the LA area spoke with NPR host Ailsa Chang ahead of November's election. They discussed today's Democratic party, and why they will — and won't — be voting for Joe Biden.
While Gen Z Democrats are split on Biden, young Republicans are deciding whether they will support President Trump. NPR political reporter Juana Summers spoke to young Republicans about their choices and the future of the GOP.
Kei Kawashima-Ginsberg, director of the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement, told NPR that young voters are more concerned with issues and values than with identity and branding.
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| 0:00.0 | Think of all the ways 2020 has been an unprecedented year. |
| 0:04.0 | It's a lot for anyone to process, especially someone voting for the first time. |
| 0:08.5 | It's overwhelming because of everything going on. |
| 0:13.5 | It's like, wow, it can really make a difference what I just do. |
| 0:17.0 | Manny Cruz was thinking about this recently at the skate park where he hangs out in LA. |
| 0:21.5 | My colleague Elsa Chang met up with him there. |
| 0:23.5 | Manny turned 18 just a few months ago. |
| 0:26.5 | Just started college at Cal State to Mingus Hills. |
| 0:29.0 | A whole class of 2020 in that generation. |
| 0:31.5 | We were all really forced to grow up so quickly. |
| 0:35.5 | And what do you mean you feel like the class of 2020 was forced to grow up quickly? |
| 0:39.5 | With the whole situation with the pandemic, I was having a conversation with my friends. |
| 0:46.5 | And we were all talking about how we were still in high school. |
| 0:51.5 | At least that's how it feels. |
| 0:54.5 | Time froze. |
| 0:56.5 | Time froze for a second and out of nowhere. |
| 0:59.0 | We were just thrown into this new chapter of our lives. |
| 1:04.0 | Consider this. |
| 1:06.0 | In a year that's been completely unpredictable, |
| 1:09.0 | Generation Z born after 1996 is getting ready for an unprecedented election. |
| 1:14.0 | But the major political parties aren't speaking to some of those voters. |
| 1:19.0 | From NPR, I'm Audie Cornish. |
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