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00:00So, we're now in the company of a first-time voter, first-time citizen, freshman in college
00:07at the University of Maryland, Peter Andrews.
00:09Thanks for being with us.
00:10Thank you very much.
00:11I'm glad to be here.
00:12You voted already?
00:13Oh, yeah.
00:14I voted mail-in ballot.
00:15It was, I'd say, a stressful process.
00:16I wanted to make sure I did everything correctly, and I was very excited when I got the text
00:19today saying they had received my ballot, and I was very happy to see that.
00:24So you got a confirmation?
00:26I got a confirmation that they had received the ballot.
00:29And I'm glad everything went well.
00:30I made sure to go over it, review it multiple times to make sure I did everything correctly.
00:34All right.
00:35So, yeah, there's been, one of the concerns has been whether early voting is safe.
00:40There's been all kinds of questions on all sides, poll watchers under a lot of pressure.
00:45Peter, you're from a demographic which traditionally doesn't vote as much as the rest of the population.
00:53How about this time?
00:54How does it feel on your campus?
00:56I feel like this election has really proved how important the young vote is, especially
01:00in the swing states where I believe that many of the undecided voters are young voters because
01:06they are coming into politics, their opinions are new and being forged here.
01:12And I think this is, all of the young voters I have talked to are deeply opinionated, and
01:23I think the reason that there's a stereotype around young voters not being, I guess, being
01:30apathetic about politics and just not caring is that for a long time we felt that there
01:38is just no ability to get our opinions out there.
01:42No way to-
01:43But this time people are energized.
01:45Why?
01:46I think it was the change from Biden to Kamala that really energized the Democratic young,
01:53the young Democratic voters because we were, I know after that, after the debate between
01:59Biden and Trump, I was annoyed.
02:02I was angry because it was just, it was horrible.
02:07And I thought, we're just going to lose this thing and they're not good.
02:11And we knew, we all thought that, but no one was listening to us.
02:14We felt no one was listening to us.
02:15But then Kamala, Biden stepped down and Kamala stepped up.
02:20And I think that change really lit a fire under Democratic, young Democratic voters
02:27to get them out there.
02:28And just briefly, are you noticing a difference between how young men and young women vote?
02:32Are there more young men voting for Donald Trump among the people you know?
02:37I'd say definitely more young men.
02:39Yeah.
02:40I know a few young men who, I don't know any young women who are voting personally.
02:46I have seen young women who are voting for Trump and young men.
02:50The main argument for them is always the economy.
02:53They never really address any of his other points.
02:57But with Kamala, I feel like I have, I've seen an even amount.
03:01I guess I've seen more vote for Trump, but there's no gender gap in who I know voting
03:07for Kamala.
03:08All right.
03:09I suspect you'll be with your friends watching those returns.
03:12Peter Antrus, thank you so much for being with us.
03:14Thank you very much.