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brooklynite

(93,858 posts)
Thu Mar 2, 2023, 08:56 AM Mar 2023

This 25-year-old organizer is betting on young and rural voters to flip NC blue

https://19thnews.org/2023/03/anderson-clayton-north-carolina-democratic-party-chair/

North Carolina hasn’t picked a Democrat for the presidency or the U.S. Senate since 2008, when 25-year-old rural organizer and newly elected North Carolina Democratic Party chair Anderson Clayton was in middle school.

Democrats have debated and dissected the reasons for that drought in a state that they hoped, and Republicans feared, was on the cusp of going blue after voting for former President Barack Obama in 2008. Democratic Senate candidate Cheri Beasley’s narrow loss in 2022 spurred another round of soul-searching and finger-pointing. Clayton’s pitch to her party was that sustained, year-round organizing can turn out young people — and bring back the rural voters who have left the party in droves. Ahead of yet another critical election year with abortion access on the line, Democrats ousted their incumbent chair and picked Clayton to lead.

“I can’t wait anymore for people to see rural North Carolina as a place worth investing in,” Clayton, who came to the role as chair of the local Democratic Party in her native Person County, said in an interview.

“I can’t wait for somebody to decide that my life is worth it, that my rights are worth protecting. It needs to be something that I take on right now,” she added. “And I know that there are other young people out there that feel the urgency.”

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This 25-year-old organizer is betting on young and rural voters to flip NC blue (Original Post) brooklynite Mar 2023 OP
Dems are on a roll, I believe. GenZ should include two other issues along with Choice Samrob Mar 2023 #1
Exactly what we need in NC, and many other States MyMission Mar 2023 #2

Samrob

(4,298 posts)
1. Dems are on a roll, I believe. GenZ should include two other issues along with Choice
Thu Mar 2, 2023, 09:04 AM
Mar 2023

guns (however you need to spin it) AND corruption and lying among the GOP. Their lying has caused not only livelihoods but lives as well. Examples are all over the place beginning with the insurrection and the lives lost there to COVID!

MyMission

(1,845 posts)
2. Exactly what we need in NC, and many other States
Thu Mar 2, 2023, 09:42 AM
Mar 2023

Young people leading the charge. It's their future, they have their whole lives ahead of them and they will have the energy and motivation to continue the fight.

Thanks for sharing this.

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