fight to continue. we saw incredible youth voter turnout. not just in florida but across the country, record breaking turnout. we know these elections wouldn t have necessarily been so close. they wouldn t have had such a great turnout or been so exciting if it wasn t for all the young people that voted. what does your fight look like now? ryan, you guys are on a gap year. a lot of you didn t go right to college, understandably. but at some point you will. and so what does what s the next action? is there a nationwide march? what will you guys be doing? like we said, we have a chapter organization that is going all across the country and across the world where we are organizing students who like us want to stand up and create change in their community. we are working closely with a great group of kids and hoping to meet with more and more of them as the year continues. do you think that kids,
you have to take polling with a grain of salt. you can get stuck in twitter, but it s better and maybe i say this as an irish person to look at the negative. what is your negative on twitter? that tells you a lot about what s really happening out there. but it s much harder than just going by the polls which we used to live and die by. it s not that way any more. and i think we re seeing major pollsters changing how they re doing their polls to try to come up with more multi faceted numbers. how about you, as you re looking at all this? you would get along with south asian mothers looking at the negatives. no, look, nobody knows nothing. that s what they say in hollywood and d.c. when it comes to polling. but let me be the optimist for democrats. yes, with the youth voter turnout, young voters in
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media definitely does cover the issues of not just voting, but the gun violence that we speak of and especially in the book, but we really have to just continue the conversation as a whole. not just the media, but we have seen in person that a lot of people have continued the conversation and we are thankful for that. and do you they gun safety issue s as are going to have a measurable impact on the governor s race in florida or the senate race there in your state? definitely. i mean, gun safety legislation is probably the biggest motivator for young people today, because it is an issue that all young people can relate it to, and it is not correlating to a specific group of people, but it affects the schools and people on the streets and everywhere and that is the biggest motet va or the, and we are looking towards the midterms to have the largest youth voter turnout in history. and ryan, back at school, and it is february 28th, and the first week back they had police
and they can make or break countersuits well to fans a little bit certainly they have a lot of money to spend in the last elections in two thousand and sixteen we saw them give fifty five million dollars to republican candidates now the vast majority the majority of americans say that they want to see straight controls on gun control but we have seen the n.r.a. putting a lot of money into political campaigns of people who support their policies and this is the main criticism from the student organizers who came together after the massacre in parkland florida they say that these politicians are in the pockets of the n.r.a. and they say that they re willing to vote them out of office this fall however of course it remains to be seen whether they will actually make it to the ballot box as youth voter turnout is generally low in the united states. what happened to about campaign you mentioned the this campaign that started with the florida