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Ocasio-Cortez says younger voters are reshaping U.S. politics

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said younger voters are becoming a decisive force in American politics, driven by anger over economic pressures and a sense that older generations have sidelined their futures.

In a Sunday interview on ABC News’ This Week, the New York Democrat said Democrats need to engage young people, especially young men, after losing support from them in earlier election cycles. Catalist data cited in the source material showed millennials made up 25% of the electorate in 2024, up from 23% in 2020, while baby boomers fell to 32% after peaking at 36% in 2016.

Ocasio-Cortez also said rhetoric from the period when calls to defund the police surged after George Floyd’s murder is “not rhetoric that we would use today.” The influence of millennial voters is expected to be tested in November races featuring candidates from different generations and parties.

Read the full story at fortune.com.

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