Republicans Are HELLBENT on Stopping the Youth Vote
May 14, 2023
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as posted by the channelIf the GOP had their way, only very few people would vote. If you ask us, it would probably just be about 2025 90yearolds who live in Northern Virginia. Around the country, the Republican Party has embarked on an ambitious legislative push to shrink the pool of eligible voters, specifically young people, who have become a key voting constituency of the Democratic party. This week we were joined by ACLU's Rotimi Adeoye, whose recent piece in The Daily Beast, “The GOP Can’t Beat Gen Z, but It Can Stifle Its Vote,” dove into this nationwide trend amongst the grand old party.
So why are Republicans so afraid of young people? “Take a look at the last midterm election, where exit polling showed strong youth support for Democrats, typically on issues like climate change, reproductive rights, and gun control. Voters aged 18-24 voted 61 percent for Democrats, while the 25-29 age group voted 65 percent blue,” says Adeoye.
“In the wake of the recent state Supreme Court election in his home state, where Republicans lost, even former Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker acknowledged the GOP’s disconnect with Gen Z voters in an interview with Fox News. “To me the larger issue here—we’ve seen it particularly in Wisconsin but across the country—is younger voters. In Wisconsin, last fall, we saw about a 40-point margin that younger voters gave to the Democrats running for Senate and governor. We saw similar margins in Pennsylvania,” said Walker.”
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