To Reach Young Voters, Try Giving a Sh*t with Cristina Tzintzún Ramirez

More than half of Americans are under the age of 40, and according to Cristina Tzintzún Ramirez, President and Executive Director of NextGen America, they are facing three crises simultaneously — a climate catastrophe, a democracy in decline, and grotesque income inequality. Cristina is a progressive labor organizer and former 2020 U.S. Senate candidate who truly understands the complexity of the youth vote, especially in her home state of Texas, and particularly within the Latino community. She joins Amanda this week to pull apart the Democrats’ mistaken assumption that young voters are all college kids; discuss why campaigns clinging to the ‘young people don’t vote’ myth after impressive turnout in 2020 do so at their own peril; and, as always, they tackle money in politics. Plus, breaking up Facebook: it’s time. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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To Reach Young Voters, Try Giving a Sh*t with Cristina Tzintzún Ramirez is an episode from Battleground with Amanda Litman and Faiz Shakir by The Recount.

This episode is 37:24 long.

This episode was published on Oct 7, 2021.

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