The 9/11 babies are all grown up — and ready to vote

The Conversation with Dasha Burns

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🗓️ 11 September 2020

⏱️ 21 minutes

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For the first time, young adults born on or around September 11, 2001, will vote in a presidential election this November. America has been at war virtually every day they've been alive — and now they're coming of age politically during a world-changing pandemic. They speak up in this episode, as POLITICO Magazine contributor Garrett M. Graff and Scott Bland discuss how Gen Z voters could shake up American politics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:35.0	It's always been background noise in my life like, oh, we're at war here, we're at war here,
0:37.0	we're at war here, oh now we're going to war here,
0:39.0	oh look at that, another war, like it just never stops. It just never stops. It's just always been there.
0:45.0	It's just always been there.
0:49.0	Sort of like one of those things
0:51.0	or it's like you never really think about your favorite color.
0:53.2	You just sort of know your favorite color.
0:55.2	Even if it changes, it's just always sort of like a part of you.
0:59.4	That's Adsel.
1:00.4	Atsel's Pharaoh.
1:01.4	I was born September 11th, 2001.
1:03.6	Today is her 19th birthday.
1:05.2	My birthday has been a part of my life forever.
1:07.4	So yeah, it marks like the country before and after, but I more think of it. It's just one of those
1:13.8	milestones in life that you just sort of add on after a while. And this is Nurdcast.
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