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Gen Z Looks to Bring Its Impatience to Congress
Maxwell Frost, who is poised to become the youngest member of the House, sees the world differently than his would-be colleagues.
Trying to add a new voice to Congress.
Photographer: Stephen M. Dowell/Orlando Sentinel
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If 80 is the new 50 in politics, then Maxwell Frost is basically in utero. Frost, 25, is poised to become the first (and only) Gen Z member of Congress — and he is hungry for change.
Frost, who won the primary last month in Florida’s safely Democratic 10th District in Orlando, represents a cultural and generational shift. An Afro-Cuban, he has been driving an Uber to help pay his bills during his campaign. Unlike the majority of lawmakers, he wasn’t shaped by World War II, Vietnam or 9/11.