It’s no secret – President Biden needs support from younger Americans to sustain his hope of retaining the White House for four more years. But some say rubbing elbows with seasoned Hollywood A-listers is far from the best way to earn it.
“The last thing my generation wants is just another old person telling us who to vote for,” Christian Hodges, a first-time Gen Z voter, said Monday on “Fox & Friends First,” as he weighed in on Biden’s presence at a swanky Los Angeles fundraiser over the weekend.
“The best way to get my generation’s attention is by other young people, and they have to be real, relatable, and to be a role model for other peers,” he added.
Stars like Jack Black, Julia Roberts, George Clooney and Jimmy Kimmel made pushes for Biden’s second term at the Peacock Theater on Saturday. Former President Barack Obama, who also made an appearance, made a point to touch on the topic of young voters.
“If young people reengage and — and aren’t cynical about the process, but say, ‘I have agency and I can change how things work to make sure that it’s working for my generation and for future generations’ – if those things happen, then Joe Biden is going to be reelected President of the United States,” he said while met with applause.
Meanwhile, the former president’s loss of support from younger voters has raised some eyebrows for Democrats in his corner. Many progressives have been driven away because they say Biden’s views on Israel fail to mesh with their own support for Palestinians.
Hodges, on the other hand, identifies as a Republican. He said the Biden administration has employed “Gen Z surrogates” to tell younger Americans to vote for the president this November and slammed those “surrogates” as “pathetic.”
“They’re only arms of the propaganda machine just telling us to vote for an old senile man, because that’s what they’ve been told to say. So I think, at best, they [the Biden administration] have no opportunity to win Gen Z,” he said.
