25-Year-Old Uber Driver Becomes The First Gen Z Elected Representative Of Congress

Millennials are no longer the cool kids.

A 25-year-old, part-time Uber Technologies Inc UBER driver became the country’s first Gen Z member to win a seat in the U.S. Congress.

Maxwell Alejandro Frost, a Florida Democrat, beat Republican Calvin Wimbish in Florida’s 10th Congressional District, representing the Orlando area.

Orlando is one in a few Florida districts where Democrats have taken a lead, as Republicans have won 20 of Florida's 28 seats in the House of Representatives.

The state also reaffirmed its Republican majority with the re-election of Ron DeSantis as governor.

Frost, born in January 1997, was able to qualify to become a Congress member by mere months, as 25 is the minimum age required for the role. He has also become the first Afro-Cuban member of Congress.

Wimbish, his Republican counterpart, is a 72-year-old former Green Beret who described himself as “Christian, conservative, [and] constitutionalist,” according to the New York Post.

In a CNN interview, Frost said that in a call with  Joe Biden, the president sympathized with him, after having gone through a similar experience himself. Biden became the sixth-youngest senator in U.S. history in 1972, having to wait a few days after his election to be sworn in, as he was a few days shy of 30 years old when he became elected.

Frost is a big advocate for gun control, with proposals around that issue being central to his campaign efforts.

“The leading cause of death for children went from automobile accidents to gun violence. Children are literally on the front lines of this issue,” Frost told CNN.

Frost added that his office is particularly excited about universal background checks, which have bipartisan support.

“Most Republicans and most NRA members are for universal background checks.”

Other issues his campaign focuses on are climate change, protecting abortion rights and supporting Medicare for all.

Karoline Leavitt, a 25-year-old former member of Donald Trump’s press staff, would have become another Gen-Z member in Congress this year, but lost New Hampshire’s 1st Congressional District to incumbent Democrat Chris Pappas.

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Photo: Courtesy of Maxwell Alejandro Frost for Congress.