Does Kamala Harris Help Democrats With Millennials And Gen Z?

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On "Forbes Newsroom," Kelly Dittmar, director of research for Rutgers' Center for American Women and Politics, sat down with ForbesWomen editor Maggie McGrath to talk about how Vice President Kamala Harris helps Democrats with younger voters.

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00:00I think we have a hundred and six days to go and I think we will feel every every one of them

00:04But when you talk about the populations that that have to be engaged you mentioned young people and I know Gen Z and their enthusiasm

00:11For these candidates on both parties has been a concern because up until 24 hours ago you had

00:18upper 70s lower 80s ages for these candidates

00:23Can you talk about what we've seen out of Gen Z and I'll just I'll tee this up for you

00:27We had the singer Charlie XCX tweeting Kamala is brat in a in a reference to brat summer and in Gen Z

00:34Twitter seemed to explode as a result. So what's your take on on?

00:39Millennials and Gen Z who are now perhaps coalescing around Kamala Harris

00:45Yeah, this had absolutely

00:47Generationally been if you looked at any polls that the lack of enthusiasm the folks saying like I just might not turn out at all

00:54Right, there was a real concern amongst younger generations because they were looking at these two old men

01:01They didn't feel any connection with them and then on the issues, right?

01:05There were concerns about Joe Biden and what's he progressive enough?

01:09Obviously the issue of Israel Palestine, right is a big issue that will continue to be an issue for Kamala Harris

01:15That does not go away, especially with these young generations

01:18But I think anytime you can see and a kind of

01:23Engagement with the more pop culture aspect of this generation as you're seeing with the Charlie XCX piece

01:30then you have a whole swath of young voters who now start paying attention and

01:35That's an endorsement in and of itself from a very different

01:40Kind of part of the world that could really benefit Kamala Harris in just generating enthusiasm again

01:46I want to give some credit to it's a young generations of voters

01:49Especially Gen Z voters are critical and they're thoughtful and they're engaged

01:54There's some of the most active in politics outside of kind of voting right like they've been protesting for a long time

02:01So they're not gonna just accept that and vote for Kamala Harris because a famous singer, you know tweeted

02:08But they may pay more attention

02:10Right, they may start to say like well, maybe I should give her a second look and I think that's where

02:15That's an upsell for a younger candidate a more diverse candidate and absolutely in this case

02:21I think it also is related to being a woman candidate. Absolutely

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