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According to a race call by the Associated Press, Democrat Maxwell Frost has won the Florida’s 10th Congressional District, making him the first member of Generation Z to be elected to the U.S. Congress.
Frost was a strong favourite to win the firmly Democratic seat in Orlando. Calvin Wimbish, a Republican, lost to him by 19 percentage points. Rep. Val Demings, a departing Democrat who ran against Senate incumbent Marco Rubio, will be replaced by Frost. According to the AP, Rubio was elected again.
Tonight, history was created, Frost tweeted. For Floridians, Generation Z, and everyone who thinks we merit a better future, we created history.
For progressive activists who reached voting age during the past ten years and discovered their political voice in reaction to controversial topics like gun violence, the 25-year-triumph old’s represents a watershed moment.
A former organiser, Frost first turned to activism in the wake of the 2012 Newtown, Connecticut, school tragedy. He worked as the national organising director for March for Our Lives, a nonprofit that promotes gun control legislation, before he decided to run for Congress.
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Younger voters’ #1 concern continues to be gun control. In comparison to inflation (45%), abortion (33%) and “preserving democracy” (30%), it was ranked as the most important or second-most important problem by 22% of respondents in a recent survey by the Harvard Institute of Politics.
One of the main tenets of Frost’s programme was the avoidance of gun violence, along with support for progressive legislation like Medicare for All and a Green New Deal.
Frost challenged Florida’s Republican governor Ron DeSantis about his opinions on the second amendment at a rally after the mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas.
Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey of Massachusetts, as well as the Congressional Progressive Caucus, all backed Frost, who collected more than $2.5 million.
Frost will join a Congress noted for its lack of age diversity when he assumes office in January, considering that its present membership is the oldest in American history.
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However, according to Amanda Litman, co-founder of Run for Something, an organisation that encourages young people running for state and municipal government, this may be gradually changing.
“When a 25-year-old runs for Congress and succeeds, more others decide they can do it as well. Someone is first, followed by other persons in the second, third, and fourth positions “she informed NPR.
In addition, Litman expressed his confidence, saying, “I am also extremely certain that since political involvement and action is a habit, it’s a muscle, you strengthen it and then it becomes stronger and stronger and stronger.” “Generation Z’s involvement in politics is only getting started,”
