Community organizer Maxwell Frost won his Florida race for Congress on Tuesday, NBC News projected, making him the primary member of Gen Z to achieve the House of Representatives.
Frost, 25, beat Republican Calvin Wimbish, a retired 72-year-old Army Green Beret, to take the Orlando-based tenth Congressional District seat now held by Democrat Val Demings.
Frost will stand out amongst his soon-to-be friends within the halls of Congress the place the typical age of House members is 58. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is 82, whereas GOP chief Kevin McCarthy will probably be 58 three weeks after the 118th Congress gavels into session.
Members of the House must be at least 25. The minimal age to serve within the U.S. Senate is 30 and a president must be at least 35.
The younger Democrat labored because the nationwide organizing director for March for Our Lives, an anti-gun violence group that emerged from the Parkland bloodbath, and has made gun violence a focal point of his campaign. Frost picked up endorsements from prevention teams like Brady: United Against Gun Violence and Giffords, in addition to gun management activist Fred Guttenberg, one of the high-profile father or mother activists to emerge from the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School bloodbath on Feb. 14, 2018, when his 14-year-old daughter Jaime Guttenberg was gunned down.
“History was made tonight,” Frost said in a statement. “We made history for Floridians, for Gen Z, and for everyone who believes we deserve a better future. I am beyond thankful for the opportunity to represent my home in the United States Congress.”
Another Gen Z congressional candidate, 25-year-old Republican Karoline Leavitt, is in a aggressive race for Congress in New Hampshire’s 1st Congressional District.