Increasingly active younger voters liberalize US electorate

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President Biden, the oldest man ever elected to the White House, won on the strength of an emerging cohort of younger voters who are increasingly finding their political voice — and growing their influence in an electorate in which older voters are losing sway.

More members of the millennial generation and Generation Z voted in the 2020 presidential election than in any prior election, according to several studies of the electorate that have taken place in recent months. 

And for the first time in American history, a majority of eligible voters under the age of 30 cast a ballot in an election. Continue reading.