Is There A Playbook For Young Democratic Candidates — And Does It Work?
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🗓️ 22 July 2025
⏱️ 18 minutes
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| 0:38.8 | show us the sacks see it hey there it's the npr politics podcast i'm sarah mccammon i cover |
| 0:44.7 | politics i'm elena more i cover politics too and i'm domenica montenaro senior political editor and |
| 0:50.2 | correspondent today on the show younger democrats are running for office. What's their message? |
| 0:55.5 | And how is it working so far? You know, Elena, you've been following this. There are at least, |
| 1:00.2 | as I understand it, 10 Democratic candidates under age 40 vying for seats in Congress in next year's |
| 1:06.3 | midterm election. How's that working? Who are they? What should we know about them? |
| 1:10.7 | Yeah, I feel like I've |
| 1:11.2 | covered young voters long enough that now I'm like old covering young voters. But old heads like |
| 1:16.7 | you wouldn't really get it. I mean, they're running in districts all around the country from the |
| 1:22.1 | Midwest, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana to Florida to California. And they have a similar pitch. The pitch is we are |
| 1:29.9 | frustrated and tired with the longtime Democratic leaders and we want new ones. And so, you know, |
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