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The Chuck ToddCast

How the “urgency” of Gen Z will change the face of American politics

The Chuck ToddCast

iHeartPodcasts

Government, News

4.02.8K Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

John Della Volpe, author of, “Fight: How Gen Z is channeling their fear and passion to save America” talks to Chuck about how Gen Z differs from generations that preceded them and what campaigns need to understand about the newest voters.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, there I'm Chuck Todd and this is the Chuck Todd cast and some of you know I'm obsessed

0:11.8

of looking at demographics by generation in particular because each one is distinctive

0:16.7

and has a huge impact on our politics today.

0:18.6

We're going to be talking about a special group of first time voters this year.

0:22.2

Some of them are first time.

0:23.2

Some of them will be second time voters.

0:25.2

It's Gen Z.

0:26.4

It separates this group from every generation before John Middede is a pollster and author

0:30.5

John Delavope.

0:31.5

He's dedicated over 20 years to studying younger voters, voters under 30 through focus groups,

0:37.2

good old fashioned field reporting, qualitative and quantitative if you will.

0:40.8

His new book Fight How Gen Z is channeling their fear and passion to save America.

0:45.2

Tell us an interesting story ahead of the midterms.

0:48.1

It's a playbook for any campaign.

0:50.0

Perhaps wishing to engage with this generation and get them fired up.

0:54.1

This prediction they will change America more than growing up in America will change them.

1:00.2

So John welcome to the talk.

1:01.9

It is so great to be with you Chuck.

1:03.8

Thank you.

1:04.8

I want to start with this topic of because you talk about how much more anxiety this

1:09.8

generation has.

1:11.5

One of the reasons this generation has so much anxiety is how well informed they are.

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