Overview
- In an interview on The Diary of a CEO YouTube channel, Kamala Harris said the voting age should be reduced to 16.
- She argued that Gen Z has grown up with the climate crisis and experiences what she called “climate anxiety.”
- Harris also pointed to pandemic-related education disruptions and concerns about wages, housing, and AI shaping the workforce.
- Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis dismissed the idea, writing that “climate anxiety” is not an argument for lowering the voting age.
- Conservative outlets disputed factual elements of her comments and highlighted her prior support for raising the gun-purchase age to 21.