He served as the co-vice chair of the Democratic National Convention from February until he was ousted in June over disagreements with the DNC over Hogg’s effort to bring in younger politicians to primary the older ones. Like Schlossberg, Kasky is relatively young, but Kasky told Vanity Fair in an interview published Tuesday, which described him as a Democratic socialist, that he isn’t “running on youth.” He said he’s instead running on policies like opposing AI, supporting Medicare for All, abolishing ICE and ending the war in Gaza. “I believe these midterms will send a message across the country that the traditional qualifications people talk about, the traditional standards to which we hold candidates—whether they have a background as a local-level lawmaker, whether they had X amount of time at Yale Law or McKinsey—these things don’t matter to people anymore.
Author: Paige Skinner
Published at: 2025-11-18 22:09:46
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