Frost beat Republican Calvin Wimbish, 72, to represent a district in and around Orlando, after making gun violence a focal point of his campaign.
Maxwell Frost won his Florida race for Congress on Tuesday, making him the first member of Generation Z to reach the House of Representatives He beat Republican Calvin Wimbish, a retired 72-year-old Army Green Beret, to take the Orlando-based 10th Congressional District seat now held by Democrat Val Demings.
Members of the House must be at least 25. The minimum age to serve in the U.S. Senate is 30 and a president must be at least 35. The young Democrat worked as the national organizing director for March for Our Lives, an anti-gun violence group that emerged from the Parkland massacre, and has made gun violence a focal point of his campaign.
Frost said he knew fighting gun violence was going to be his calling at age 15, when 20 children and six adults were gunned down at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut on Dec. 14, 2012. "I started to organize at 15 because I didn’t want to get shot at my school," Frost told supporters Tuesday night.
"I have but nothing but respect for her and the campaign that she ran," Pappas told supporters in Manchester. "And we should all be grateful for those who step up to run for office."
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