‘Voting Became a Lot More Cool’: How Gen Z Showed Up for Biden

The youth vote helped Democrats win the White House. Can it deliver the Senate too?

Mari Uyehara
GEN
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10 min readNov 30, 2020

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“We were born into the tragedy protest movement,” says Reshad Daniels, a 22-year-old senior at Kennesaw State University in Georgia, summing up his generation’s perspective.

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Mari Uyehara
GEN
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Culture and politics writer based in Brooklyn and western Massachusetts. Her work has appeared in GQ, The Wall Street Journal, The Nation, and more.