![]() “I’m always asked, ‘What does Gen Z care about?’ And I don’t think Gen Z cares about different things than other generations,” he says. Frost supports a long list of typical progressive causes: Medicare for All, 100% clean energy, and gun and justice reform-common Gen Z priorities. The Orlando native is running for Democratic Congresswoman Val Demings’s seat, which she is vacating to challenge Marco Rubio for his seat in the Senate. Though he kept his camera off during our interview, I heard in the background what sounded like the opening and closing of kitchen cabinets and the turning on and off of a faucet (was he doing dishes?).ĭespite the domestic clamor, Frost exuded genuine excitement at the prospect of getting elected and using his platform as an opportunity to create a better world for his peers. Frost sounds every bit the part of a congressman, speaking with the practiced diplomacy of a politician decades older. If Frost is elected next week-and he’s confident he will be-he’ll be the first Gen Z member of Congress.īut don’t get it twisted. ![]() There’s never been an Afro-Cuban congressman, and Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.) is currently the youngest member of Congress at 27.Īs a Gen Zer, he’s up on pop culture (he went as Greta Gerwig for Halloween) and depends on the gig economy to make ends meet, working part-time as an Uber driver. While his schedule screams “politician on the campaign trail,” Frost is nothing like a typical congressional candidate. “Not everyone’s getting a call, but we’re doing as many as we can for people who chipped in,” Frost says. ![]() interview with Fortune, a few hours of “call time,” during which he personally called some of his 40,000-plus donors. That shouldn’t have been surprising, considering he had a full day of back-to-back meetings: a Zoom gathering for Democrats Abroad chats with two Orlando activists a meeting with a local union and, before his 5 p.m. On a Monday in September, 43 days before Election Day, Maxwell Frost showed up to our Zoom interview 10 minutes late. ![]()
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