Maxwell Alejandro Frost, a 25-year-old activist of Cuban descent, won the Democratic primary in Florida’s 10th District on Tuesday, putting this progressive candidate on an almost certain path to becoming the first member of Generation Z in the United States Congress.
Frost hopes to win a majority in the November election against Republican Calvin Wimbish in the heavily Democratic-influenced Orlando area.
“I share this victory with the nurses, crane operators, drivers, teachers, caregivers, social workers, farmers, unionists, cashiers and other members of this vibrant community who have supported this campaign,” Frost said in a statement.
These elections, he added, “are proof that the working families of Central Florida want to be represented by someone who has the courage to ask for more.”
Frost has focused his campaign on controversial points such as gun control, climate change, universal access to health, the right to vote and violence prevention, as well as the promotion of community-based programs, among others. .
This year will be the first in which candidates from the so-called Generation Z or “zillenials”, those born between 1995 and 2010, will be able to aspire to be members of the House of Representatives of the US Congress. At 25, progressive Frost qualifies as the minimum age required for a seat in the legislature.
According to the biography on his campaign website, Maxwell Alejandro Frost is of Cuban descent. His grandmother and his mother arrived in Florida from Cuba on the so-called Freedom Flights of the early 1960s, shortly after Fidel Castro’s rise to power, “with just a suitcase and no money.”
“My grandmother Yeya worked in factories in Miami more than 70 hours a week, where she was exploited and forced to accept harsh working conditions in order to support her family,” says Frost, who also details how her mother, a “victim of system”, was involved in a “cycle of drugs, crime and violence” during her pregnancy, in which “not once” did she have access to medical care, and she had to make the “difficult decision” to give him up for adoption.
Frost has confessed to being a victim of police and gun violence, which influenced his decision to become involved in political activism after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in 2012.
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