Characterized as the most diverse in history and with an electoral weight of more than 40 million potential voters, the Generation Zhas demanded that the presidential candidates USA resolve certain issues that raise concerns, such as climate change, abortion, high housing costs, student debt, and lack of good jobs.
Ojas Sanghia 19-year-old student, explained to EFE that he would love for the current vice president and candidate of the Democratic PartyKamala Harris, as well as the Republican, Donald Trump, put forward proposals that provide real solutions to all the problems that concern the young Generation Z, especially in terms of obtaining better jobs and reducing student debt.
It is worth noting that, for these elections, around 40.8 million members of the Gen Zthat is, people born between 1997 and 2012, are eligible to vote, according to an analysis carried out in 2023 by the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Participation (CIRCLE).
“For me it is a great privilege to be able to vote; a privilege that my immigrant parents did not have when they first arrived in this country,” argued Jesús Rendón Silva, a 20-year-old student of Mexican origin.
On November 5, 2024, around 8.8 million Latinos from Generation Z will be able to vote in the presidential elections, according to CIRCLE research, taking into consideration Gen Z as one of the most diverse in the history of the American Union.
The study also found that 45 percent of the 40.8 million Generation Z voters are members of minority groups, including 5.7 million African Americans and 1.7 million Asian Americans.
There are also 8.3 million of these potential voters who are approximately 19 years old, and who will go to the polls for the first time to democratically elect their next leader.
The Democratic congressman from the state of FloridaMaxwell Frost, a 27-year-old Puerto Rican and Haitian, explained to EFE that “Generation Z are not only new voters but are the voters who will set the political direction of the United States.”
It is worth noting that Maxwell Frost is the first member of Congress from Generation Z, and is now part of the Kamala Harris campaign to mobilize the vote of their entire generation in the various universities of states that they consider “swing states,” as those that are not the fiefdom of any of the major parties are called.
According to Frost, “Young people know the importance of this election and the effect it will have on their future lives and on issues they care about, such as climate change and abortion rights.”
Because, the campaign of Harris-Walz He told EFE that young voters achieved decisive margins to overthrow Donald Trump in 2020 and maintain Democratic control in the Senate two years ago, they consider that this generation will once again be an essential factor in defeating the former US president in the elections that will most likely result in the first female president from the United States.
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