Gen Z voters stopped the Republican red wave

Gen Z Voter turnout — A sign marks the entrance to a voting precinct on the first day of early voting in the general election in Phoenix, Oct. 12, 2022.

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Gen Z voters stopped the Republican red wave

In the weeks before Tuesday’s midterms, researchers from the University of Chicago interviewed a diverse cross section of more than 2,000 potential Gen Z and millennial voters ages 18 to 40 to learn their views on politics and the election. Reset digs into that data to understand what motivated young people to vote in numbers high enough to impact the outcome of races across the country. GUESTS: Cathy Cohen, professor of political science at the University of Chicago Kumar Ramanathan, GenForward research fellow, PhD student in political science at Northwestern University

A sign marks the entrance to a voting precinct on the first day of early voting in the general election in Phoenix, Oct. 12, 2022.

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By Dan Tucker

Reset digs into that data to understand what motivated young people to vote in numbers high enough to impact the outcome of races across the country.

GUESTS: Cathy Cohen, professor of political science at the University of Chicago

Kumar Ramanathan, GenForward research fellow, PhD student in political science at Northwestern University