Let's Talk About Young Voters

The NPR Politics Podcast

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Politics, Daily News, News

4.5 • 24.9K Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2021

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Young voters broke for Joe Biden in 2020, but are shirking party affiliations in greater numbers than older generations. And it remains to be seen how millennials and Gen Z legislators will fit into existing political power structures: many top Democrats have been at the helm in Washington for decades and recruiting young candidates can be a challenge.

This episode: White House reporter Asma Khalid, demographics and culture reporter Danielle Kurtzleben, and political correspondent Juana Summers.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Tess, an Ohio girl living in a little village in the south of France.
0:05.4	And I'm heading out to my favorite Saturday morning market.
0:08.8	This podcast was recorded at...
0:10.9	209 PM Eastern Time on Tuesday, October 12th.
0:15.3	Things may have changed by the time you hear this,
0:17.6	but I'll still be drinking wine and eating cheese.
0:20.8	Over.
0:24.8	I feel like she's trying to troll us.
0:26.9	Yeah, it's a rough life.
0:28.7	I'm so jealous, can we come?
0:30.7	Hey, everyone, it's the NPR Politics Podcast.
0:33.7	I'm a smakhalla, I cover the White House.
0:35.7	I'm Danielle Kurtz, I've been a cover demographics and culture.
0:38.3	And I'm one of Summers, I cover politics.
0:40.8	Today on the show, how young folks are changing
0:43.9	and framing politics in our country.
0:46.0	But before we get to what they are doing,
0:48.1	let's talk about who they are.
0:49.6	Now, I know some of you 35-year-olds like to think that you are awfully young,
0:53.6	but want to correct me if I'm wrong, that's not who you're talking about, right?
0:57.6	Asma, not quite in the reporting that I've been doing recently.
1:01.0	I am mostly talking about people between the ages of 18 and 29-year-olds.
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