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Among the 30 or so students I spoke to, all of them told me they were registered to vote, and Harris’s support for Israel was what they wanted to talk about. Photo: Roberto Schmidt/AFP/Getty Images
Peter Hamby
October 29, 2024

Over the weekend, I finished a multiweek tour of college campuses for my Snapchat series, Good Luck America, talking to students about an election in which Gen Z has taken on a starring role. Like most conversations with normies who aren’t going to campaign events, or following every burp of the political news cycle, my journey was both bracing and nourishing, a reminder that the concerns of everyday Americans are complicated, sometimes weird, and so distantly removed from the D.C. media conversation that I sometimes felt like a modern-day Henry Morton Stanley, exploring a new and undiscovered continent where everyone is fluent in the price of gasoline and absolutely no one saw that tweet you sent about John Kelly