Take your bows and applause for your good works and Service to the Nation, and retire.
Make way for a younger crowd to take up the work of The People.
The Bi-Partisan Policy Center says:
https://bipartisanpolicy.org/explainer/10-things-to-know-2024-presidential-election/ Roughly 244 million Americans will be eligible to vote in 2024. The 2020 election saw record turnout of 66.6% of eligible voters. If we see turnout that high again, more than 162 million ballots will be cast by November.
Gen Z makes up 41 million eligible voters now, so that makes them about 1/3 of the electorate.
Generation Z-led Democratic organizations in Florida say that while the party’s presidential ticket is changing, there won’t be fewer young voters at the ballot box in November.
“Youth voters consistently turned out on behalf of President Biden in historic fashion because he always showed up for us on the issues, whether it was gun violence, climate change, or the Republican Party’s attacks on our very rights to bodily choice and autonomy,” Florida Future Leaders Chair Jayden D’Onofrio said in a statement.
“Now at this historic crossroads, youth voters will turn out en masse for Kamala Harris, to be our first woman President (who) will protect and expand our right to choice all across the nation. The contrast could not be clearer to our generation: vote for a young and always determined Kamala Harris, or watch the promise of our future fall apart at the hands of a 78-year-old convicted felon and sex offender who is at the front lines of waging the Republican Party’s war on our youth rights.”
It is time to Pass the Baton.
In 2026 let us look to the future and the leadership of a younger generation who will have to live with the world that my generation and the three before it created.
It is time.