The youngest candidate in the Republican presidential field is preparing to announce a proposal to raise the voting age to 25 for most people.
While Vivek Ramaswamy has privately discussed the idea of raising the voting age with his team since he announced his presidential bid in February, he had been convinced to hold off, his aides believing the idea would not be received well. | Francis Chung/POLITICOVivek Ramaswamy, the youngest candidate in the Republican presidential field, is preparing to announce a new policy proposal: Raising the voting age.
But there’s something to the notion that “you value a country more — you value anything more, including a country — that you don’t just simply inherit, but that you have a stake in building and creating in some way,” he said. “Most of the team has not been for this,” a campaign adviser who was granted anonymity to discuss internal conversations said.
The proposal, if taken seriously, is likely to draw swift criticism from voting rights advocates and Democrats. In the unlikely scenario such a measure was approved — either by Congress or a constitutional convention petitioned by state legislatures — it would disproportionately affect Democrats’ electoral prospects, since Generation Z voters decidedly skew left.
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