Young and progressive voters aren’t just ‘settling for Biden’ anymore. They’re going all in.

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The general election is a week away and groups like Settle for Biden are hoping to be the push that gets young voters and progressives to the polls.

But written in lettering that mimics Biden’s actual campaign logo is a phrase that has become a movement: Settle for Biden.

In a message to skeptical primary voters in August 2019 in New Hampshire, the former second lady said “maybe you have to swallow a little bit” to vote for her husband, but he is the candidate who can beat President Donald Trump. The comments resulted in some headlines stating Jill Biden was asking voters to"settle" for her husband.

Youth turnout jumps from 2014 to 2018 midtermsOver the past several months, young and progressive voters have used social media to campaign amid the coronavirus pandemic and convince skeptical voters to support Biden. And Settle for Biden has gone from just an organization to a movement for many members of those key voting blocs.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 36% of citizens ages 18 to 29 reported voting during the 2018 midterms, which is up from the 20% in 2014. Turnout among young voters during the midterms could mean an unprecedented number of young voters on Nov. 3.When he first started his organization, Weinberg said he was seeing a lot of disenfranchised voters who painted Biden and President Donald Trump as “two sides of the same coin.

“To be honest, we're not just, you know, settling for Biden anymore,” he said. “At the outset, we were putting our support reluctantly behind the candidate who we viewed as imperfect, who wasn't our first choice. But now Biden has shown himself to be progressive enough and Trump has continually showed how awful he consistently is.

Aidan Kohn-Murphy, a 16-year-old from the Washington, D.C. area, started the organization after the first presidential debate on Sept. 29, which he described as “insane” due to Trump’s performance. Kohn-Murphy said he and his friends “were kind of feeling powerless” and wondered if they could use their “platforms for something good.”

Over 330 TikTok creators are members of the TikTok for Biden group, including video blogger Hank Green, Meena Harris, who is Sen. Kamala Harris’ niece, and Claudia Conway, daughter of Trump advisor Kellyanne Conway. The group has more than 778,000 followers on TikTok. But many of the creators that are a part of the group have their own viral followings. For example, Green and Claudia Conway each have more than 1 million followers on their own accounts.

 

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Voting for a racist....that's how naive they are.

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