Maxwell Frost has won his bid for the US House of Representatives. The Orlando activist will be the youngest member of Congress and the first Congressman who is a member of Generation Z.
The Associated Press called the race for Frost quickly, with him carrying nearly 60% of the vote.
Frost beat out opponents in a Democratic primary for the seat that had long belonged to Rep. Val Demings. Demings vacated the seat to challenge Marco Rubio for one of Florida’s Senate seats. The district has been a blue stronghold since the district was redrawn last decade, with Demings handily winning every contest she ran in.
The 25-year-old activist has progressive views among the inhabitants of the US Capitol building, but they’re nothing remarkable among his own age cohort. Frost believes in gun control action on climate change, criminal justice reform, strengthening labor protections and enhanced transit options for Orlando.
As our own election guide explained:
“There’s been a lot written about how the so-called ‘gerontocracy’ in higher office needs to go. Well, Florida: Now you’ve got your chance with firebrand Gen-Z candidate Maxwell Frost… Frost’s youthful energy and unabashed progressive views on everything from the environment to gun control are a breath of fresh air in Florida politics.”
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