ORLANDO, Fla. – Maxwell Frost on Tuesday won the crowded field in the race for U.S. Rep. Val Demings’ seat.
Frost, 25, is a national organizing director for March For Our Lives and also has worked with the ACLU. If elected, he would be among the first Gen Z lawmakers in Congress.
“Don’t count us out because of our youth,” Frost said. “We need a government that looks like the entire country. That means race, age. That means experience.”
He advocates for progressive issues, including Medicare for All, the Green New Deal, tightening gun laws, increasing funding for biomedical research, legalizing recreational marijuana, abolishing the death penalty, and instituting national protections for tenants and curbing real estate speculation to deal with housing affordability.
“At the end of the day this is about the fight for everything and everyone,” Frost said. “I intend to work tooth and nail to make sure we keep our majority in Congress, so we can deliver for people, poor and in the working class families, and we don’t forget our state and local races.”
Demings won the nomination for U.S. Senate and will take on Marco Rubio in November.
On the other side of the aisle, Calvin Wimbish won the Republican nomination for the house seat.
Frost will face Wimbish and a no-party affiliate candidate, Jason Holic, in November.
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