At the next presidential election, Generation Z, along with millennials, is expected to make up the majority of voters for the first time.
Gen Z voters aren’t just waiting on the political sidelines for their moment in 2028, however. They are already here, not just marching, posting, or showing up in exit polls, but staffing city halls, running field programs, in and running for Congress, and pushing parties to rethink messages that worked for older voters but no longer resonate.
The open question, analysts say, is whether political parties will treat them as the core of the electorate they are about to become, or keep talking to them as an afterthought….