With its rich, graying Ivy League membership, the US Congress sometimes boasts all the variety of a prog rock nostalgia tour.
But the House of Representatives and Senate may have a contact of unique allure in the new consumption — even amongst the straight, white males.
The Gen Z lawmaker
Maxwell Frost might be the first member of Congress from “Generation Z” — right this moment’s teenagers and younger adults who make up a demographic group that the freshman legislator says he’s very eager on representing.
The 25-year-old African-American, raised by an adoptive mom of Cuban descent, is more likely to stand out amongst the sea of white faces and graying pates in the House of Representatives, the place the common age of the final consumption was 58.
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“We need that representation in Congress so that way we have a government that looks like the country and knows what the country is going through,” the younger Democrat Frost informed AFP forward of the election.
Frost obtained into politics at age 15, horrified by the Sandy Hook Elementary School bloodbath in Connecticut. He plans to make use of his affect to fight gun violence but in addition ran on selling social justice and preventing local weather change.
The bald behemoth
John Fetterman might be doing a little standing out of his personal, as Washington’s joint-newest Democratic senator stands at six foot 9 inches (2.05 meters) and boasts a baby-smooth shaven head.
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The 50-year-old Pennsylvanian can also be recognized for not often leaving the home in something besides his trademark get-up of shorts and a hoodie, even in a blizzard.
Fetterman’s political positions obtained him observed too as he noticed off Republican movie star physician Mehmet Oz, in a single of the midterm election’s most closely-watched races, on a platform that included legalizing hashish.
The ex-lieutenant governor’s promotion to the huge time, in a seat vacated by a retiring Republican, delivered President Joe Biden a Democratic majority in the higher chamber and an opportunity of urgent his agenda.
The writer and Trump convert
A newcomer to politics, 38-year-old J.D. Vance made his title with the 2016 publication of “Hillbilly Elegy,” a best-selling fictionalized account of his upbringing in working-class Ohio that has turn into an emblem of white America’s decline.
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After a profession as a enterprise capitalist in Silicon Valley, Vance was an avowed opponent of former president Donald Trump, as soon as calling him “America’s Hitler.”
But he grew to become a convert after Trump backed him to return to his roots and retain a key Senate seat in the midwestern swing state for the Republicans.
Trump’s assist paid dividends and Vance ended up being the embattled Republican chief’s solely success amongst a catastrophic slate of endorsements for state-wide contests in key battlegrounds.
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The Hispanic immigration hawk
Embodying the Republican Party’s push for extra various enchantment in Texas, Monica De La Cruz ran on increasing the Mexican border wall in a state the place Hispanics and Latinos of any race now outnumber non-Hispanic white individuals.
The 48-year-old might be the first Republican and first lady to signify Texas’s fifteenth congressional district in its historical past.
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De La Cruz was amongst a quartet of Latina Republicans vying for congressional seats in the state’s historically Democratic southeastern stronghold, and the just one that received her race.
By Camille Camdessus © Agence France-Presse