EXCLUSIVE: Joe Vogel is trying to become the second Gen Z member of Congress—and he thinks Democrats need a lot more young members like him.
If he wins, Joe Vogel wouldn’t technically be the youngest member of Congress.
“We have a problem in our politics,” Vogel told The Daily Beast during a recent interview. “We are missing a generation of leaders, and missing our voices at the table.” A self-styled “pragmatic progressive,” Vogel has already earned a reputation among his colleagues as a methodical and ambitious legislator.
There was a point he thought of becoming a doctor. But after taking his first step into politics with the Obama campaign, Vogel never looked back. He later campaigned for a state Senate candidate with a strong gun control platform before joining Hillary Clinton’s 2016 staff. After almost a decade campaigning for others, Vogel said he grew frustrated with what he saw as inaction by elected leaders.
Vogel struck Fair as a strong candidate when they first met on the campaign trail. Now, the two work closely on LGBTQ issues in the education subcommittee. When one of them defends a bill on the statehouse floor, Fair said they’ll often meet to exchange notes and bounce ideas off each other. “I’m a progressive, but I’m also a progressive who wants to deliver,” Vogel said. “We can have these bold ideas and this bold, progressive vision for the future, but if we’re not getting anything done for people, it doesn’t matter.”
“I am one of the strongest voices standing up and saying no and fighting back,” Vogel said, citing Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis as examples. “I’m so deeply committed, passionately committed about protecting our democracy, because I know what lies on the other side of that.” Vogel still supports Biden and believes the benefits of the president’s policies outweigh any concerns about his age. Still, he sees the prevailing gerontocracy in Washington, D.C., as an obstacle to engaging young voters.
As students in the ad watch footage of the Jan. 6 insurrection and hide during an active-shooter drill, Vogel lays out his platform as a series of threats facing the next generation.
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