What Young Voters Want in 2024
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🗓️ 26 November 2023
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Host Scott Detrow talks with NPR political reporter Elena Moore about the different ways new voters approach politics than older voters.
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| 0:00.0 | If you saw a lot of barbie content, |
| 0:11.0 | Barbie content. Memes were overdubed with audio like this. |
| 0:13.4 | Hi Barbie! |
| 0:14.4 | Hi Barbie! |
| 0:15.4 | Hi Barbie! |
| 0:16.4 | Hi Ken! |
| 0:17.4 | Lots of pink, like this guy in a bright pink jeep. |
| 0:20.0 | And I'm bad like the Barbie. |
| 0:22.0 | I'm in dog, but I still want a party. |
| 0:23.0 | Yeah, folks, we're going to the... |
| 0:25.0 | Only this Jeep was pulling up in front of the U.S. Capitol, |
| 0:28.0 | and this guy was Corey Booker, the Democratic senator from New Jersey. |
| 0:32.0 | Now, Booker's account isn't all meme. Booker, the Democratic Senator from New Jersey. |
| 0:32.6 | Now, Booker's account isn't all memes. |
| 0:35.1 | There are a lot of sincere selfie videos too. |
| 0:37.9 | We are dealing with this existential crisis of climate change. So what is going on here? |
| 0:46.0 | Well, Congress skews old and Tik-Toc users skew young. |
| 0:50.0 | And a number of Democratic lawmakers have decided that they need to reach |
| 0:54.6 | these users and their votes. It's not just Democrats. I think other Republican |
| 0:59.9 | politicians are soon going to join Tik-Tok probably in the next six months as they're seeing |
| 1:05.7 | young voters flock to our campaign. |
| 1:08.5 | Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ram swami has attacked Tik-Toc as digital fentanyl for Americans, but unlike most politicians |
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