I am a Gen Z Republican and my time in the trenches taught me this about 2024

I am a Gen Z Republican and my time in the trenches taught me why the party failed during midterms on issues that Gen Z cares about. GOP must change in 2024.

Karoline Leavitt is the former Republican nominee for Congress in New Hampshire’s 1st Congressional District. Leavitt formerly served as communications director for House Republican Chairwoman Elise Stefanik, and as assistant press secretary in President Donald Trump’s White House. 

The 2022 midterms were the first electoral test on the impact of Generation Z Americans, and Republicans failed miserably. 18-29 year-olds flooded the polls to cast their ballots for Democrat candidates. In House races like mine, 63% of Generation Z Americans voted Democrat. In all races nationwide, 18-29 year-olds voted Democrat by 28 points. In contrast, the GOP’s dwindling base of voters 65 years and older only voted Republican by 13 points.  

Despite my youth and energetic, grassroots campaign – I was no exception. I lost my hard-fought race at the hands of my own generation. Thousands of students at college campuses in my district, namely the University of New Hampshire, utilized New Hampshire’s same day registration law and voted against me in their quest to end the alleged "threat to democracy" and protect their utmost priority – "abortion rights."