Harris campaign focuses on Arizona in its push to drive Gen Z voters to the polls

Riding high on the recently completed Democratic National Convention and the enthusiasm that has propelled her to a lead in the national polls, Vice President Kamala Harris is launching a campaign to mobilize Generation Z voters on 150 campuses across battleground states.

And Arizona is the tip of the spear in that effort, with the Harris campaign focusing its “Back-to-School” campaign kick-off in the Grand Canyon State, with U.S. Rep. Maxwell Frost — the first Gen Z member of Congress — set to join students Wednesday at the University of Arizona in Tucson and then at Arizona State University in Tempe.

“Young voters know the impact that this election will have on their futures, from the freedom to make our own health care decisions to addressing the climate crisis to being safe from gun violence to our ability to find a home and pay the rent,” Frost, a Democrat from Florida, said in a written statement. “The only way we will win is by organizing everywhere and it’s up to us to turn the energy we’re seeing into action to win in November. I am confident that we will see record youth turnout this November.”

Long a group that rarely voted, and did so in small numbers when it did, young voters in Arizona have become a political force to be reckoned with since 2018, when more than one in every four voters under the age of 30 cast a ballot — more than two-and-a-half times the turnout among young voters in 2014 — setting a record for a midterm election.




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