Kristen Soltis Anderson: Millennials and Generation Z on Trump, the Left, and Big Government

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🗓️ 9 February 2019

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Kristen Soltis Anderson is a pollster, author, and political analyst. In her second conversation with Bill Kristol, Anderson analyzes the latest data on the political, social, and cultural attitudes of the two youngest voting generations, “Millennials” (ages 23-38 in 2019) and “Generation Z” (ages 14-22 in 2019). According to Anderson, both of these generations continue their leftward political trajectory—a trend, she asserts, has accelerated during the presidency of Donald Trump. Anderson shares her perspective on what this data means for American politics in the short and medium term. Finally, Kristol and Anderson discuss how Republicans might broader their appeal to younger voters.

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0:00.0	And the Hi, I'm Bill Crystal. Welcome to Conversations. I'm very pleased to be joined today by
0:19.0	Kristen Salters Anderson, leading Republican Polster, co-founder of Echelon strategies, insights,
0:26.4	insights.
0:27.4	I can never keep those polling and consulting firms saying, why Echelon?
0:31.4	So Echelon, because after sitting in a coffee shop for three hours trying to figure out what
0:35.7	we wanted to name our company, my co-founder and I realized that there was a spy program
0:41.2	from the 1980s.
0:43.4	I was googling combinations of things I liked,
0:45.8	Margaret Thatcher, what have you, and came up with.
0:49.0	Echelon was the name of a spy program or a rumored spy program
0:52.0	from the 1980ss Cold War era.
0:54.2	We just thought it was fun.
0:55.2	And we have Margaret Thatcher throw pillows on the couch at our office, so there you go.
0:59.4	Excellent.
1:00.3	So despite being focused on millennials, you're also looking back.
1:03.1	That's very nice.
1:03.7	Reassuring to people like me.
1:05.4	You're a leading student of younger voters
1:07.5	and the issue of how Republicans are doing and can do
1:11.8	with younger voters. You wrote that book in 2015 on the
1:15.0	selfie vote and happy to have you at the end today to talk about millennials and
1:20.1	even about younger voters I guess. That's right.
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