'It's popular now to go vote': Young Texans are voting in record numbers
The youth turnout reflects a Democrat-driven registration campaign that has added nearly 1.9 million new Texas voters to the rolls over the past four years. In 2016, about 15.1 million people were registered to vote; this year, it’s nearly 17 million.
“That is not going to be dominated by older white people,” said Renée Cross, senior director of the Hobby School of Public Affairs at the University of Houston. “Those numbers are going to be dominated by younger folks who tend to be people of color.”
Though no young Republicans were on hand Friday afternoon at Texas State, they’re plenty motivated, too.
Chase Nicholson, the 21-year-old co-president of the Southern Methodist University chapter of the College Republicans, voted by mail this year in her home state of Florida — for Trump.
She had varied reasons for preferring Trump, she said. She wanted to deliver a rebuke to “cancel culture,” the social media-driven practice of denouncing those who do or say things deemed objectionable.
She said she has a firm belief in small government and hoped that reviving the economy quickly under Trump would help those who lost their jobs in the coronavirus lockdowns.
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