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🗓️ 7 July 2024
⏱️ 73 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hey everyone just wanted to let you know that we recorded this episode a few days before |
0:05.9 | the debate that has |
0:07.8 | Changed everything |
0:09.6 | But we still want to bring you the episode that we recorded because the concerns that you're going to hear from these voters are concerns that they expressed before the debate and they are concerns that they will express after the debate I'm sure. |
0:24.6 | So with that here's our episode. |
0:27.0 | That's sort of where young people sit generationally in history in general is like we are always the group of people that are going to be fighting and begging and demanding change. |
0:43.0 | Like we're never going to be okay with what the status quo is. |
0:45.0 | So even if Biden has been the most progressive president, |
0:48.0 | and we do talk about that, I think young people are always going to be the group that pushes us to be better to have a more equitable and fair society because we've always been that way on every civil justice fight that's existed in my opinion. |
1:01.0 | So I think we just need to do a better job at talking to them. |
1:06.0 | Anderson Clayton is a 26 year old voter in a swing state who wants to see a |
1:10.1 | generational shift in our politics. That makes her just like most Genzi voters. What makes |
1:15.6 | her different is that she decided to run for State Party Chair in North Carolina and is now |
1:21.0 | the youngest person in America to ever hold that title. |
1:25.0 | We called her up to talk about what she's hearing from young voters in North Carolina |
1:29.0 | as she tries to flip the state this November. |
1:31.0 | A tough challenge in a place that's only competitive because of an |
1:34.8 | electorate that keeps getting younger and more diverse. For a few decades now, young |
1:39.8 | voters have been a big reason that Democrats win elections. |
1:42.8 | In 2020, over half of 18 to 29 year olds voted, low compared to other age groups, but still the highest |
1:49.5 | youth turnout since the voting age was lowered to 18. For the first time ever, there were more |
1:54.5 | Gen Z and millennial voters combined than there were baby boomers and the silent |
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