to keep flying legal. it's hoped it will cut down on abuse and the nuisance that drones can cause. i'm antonio mora, thank you for joining us. luis suarez is up next with "inside story". have a great night. >> they are highly prized. expensively courted voters. millennials will be the largest single group of eligible voters, 83 million strong. but these americans have underperformed even the long-term under performance of voters. and what's going to pull them off the sidelines? late to the party? it's the "inside story".

welcome to "inside story," i'm ray suarez. national elections in which no be presidential income bat is on the ballot are often high interest, high spending, high turnout affairs, widely called millennials, people born in the last two decades of the 20th century, and hitting milestones in the shadow of 9/11 and iraq. in the book, the history of america's future, credited with naming the millennials, authors william strauss and neil howell predicted that the boomers would be a particular generation. kicking off a primary season beckoning all americans to the polls, will the youngest voters show up?

in the 2012 election, with just 38p. of the eligible 18-24-year-olds voting, midterms, just 19% cast a ballot. much smaller numbers of millennials have favorable opinion of capitalism than people of other age groups. more than one-third would be enthusiastic or be comfortable voting for an avowed socialist candidate for president. more difficult for their elders, but if you don't live out the values by casting ballot, you're not telling the powerful what you think, are you? late to the party, at this time, chelsea, ashley, and tristen, and ashley, they have been at this a long time.

and the record is mixed. but you've been at it long enough that you can tell what brings young voters out and what doesn't. what works? what's in the tool kit some. >> well, the thing about the vote, it has been evolving for the last 25 years to meet the needs of the next generation. and right now, the most had diverse in our country's history, is reachable in a very different way when it was founded. when you could reach most young people simply bringing on mtv. and today, we're all tuning into to a number of ad platforms, and mostly online, we have grown up largely as digital natives, it consuming information from a had multitude of sources, so our task at hand is to communicate effectively with the millennial generation on the platform that we're on. >> goods that make a does that ,

the multiple way of finding them and talking to them, does it create an opening for the organizations like black and brown people vote? >> absolutely. our project is primarily on reaching young people of particular millennials, and if it's social media, or whatever tool that we're using to keep up with one another and what's happening, we utilize that particular outlet to amplify that wardage and informed and be able to make decisions based on what is actually happening, and not consuming just what a lot of campaigns understand, that we're not sitting in front of the news every single night to get our information, so we have to be informed and find credible information. >> jesse henry, the republican vote in the united states excuse older than the voting in

gem, so if you're looking for young republicans, do you get the kind of backing from the party necessary to engage, to make enthusiastic, and mobilize young republican voters? >> yes, there's support from the party. back in 2012, the gop did an autopsy from that election, and what they found, not only were there areas from the youth vote that they need to improve o. but for minorities and for women. so what we have seen in the past two years, the republican matter, the republican national committee has expanded their reach out to colleges. this is one of the most important areas that any political organization can be at, because this is where young people begin to normalize their thoughts, their ideologies, what they believe in, where they stand, and for us as a party, the gop has been not only want is traditional

colleges and universities, but hbus, they started at the moore house chapter. and they continue to reach out. next week at daytona beach, and they are getting out. i think that the other thing that the party is realizing from their autopsy is how they message. i'm a conservative through and through, so i stand by the republican values of the republicanner party. and does that mean that everyone who looks like me, who is my age, a woman, an attorney, whatever demographic will be, will they be the same? no, but the way that we communicate the message with the platform is critical for us to reach millennials. >> chelsea, come of age during the time of 9/11, two wars, and then the great recession has put younger voters -- let's say 18-29s, in a rough spot in many places in the country.

it has been tough to be 25, tough to be 26. >> yes, it has. >> but it has been an alienating instead of a galvanizing experience for young people. how do you get through that? how do you break through? >> you know, i was doing some research and one of the things that people my age, millennials look for, we really like policy, and really like to know the issues, and we really like to be involved. and one of the ways that we can continue as americans, one of my things is i'm not a purist. but i want everyone to be informed of their principles and values, and one of the ways that we pierce through some of the barriers that are before us is to get out there and speak on the issues, and unfortunately, some of the things that we see before us, if we watch mainstream tv w. the front runners, we have the reality stor star for the front running party. and some of the issues at the

core of the student loan debt. and healthcare, and entrepreneurship and jobs, those the messages getting across, so i believe that we have to take it back to the basics of the principles and the issues and the policies of how that's going to change our lives. >> tristen, why has it been that so many people aren't where they should have been, who feel a sense of loss about the way that their 20s are going, that it hasn't wound them up to be involved. but instead disconnect. >> i disagree, ray. i think that folks are wound up and very much passionate. i think that voter apathy is, if we look at it as we have, we say folks don't care, and they're disengaged, but i think that voter apathy should be looked at differently, as a form of protest. saying that we're not

interested in a dysfunctional system, or a democracy that doesn't promote our he ideals, and we're not interested in promoting a process of governing that has failed to make good on its promises. >> hold that thought until the last part of the program because i want to leave time for non-voting as a political statement. and we'll pick it up with you, and one thing in a is unites our guests is a forward-looking optimistic it desire to bring voting off the sidelines and into the fray. what works to turn a non-voter into a voter?

>> you're watching "inside story", and i'm ray suarez. millennials and the 2016 vote this time. my guests are still with me, and ashlea, we were talking about coming of age during this particular time, a tough time to be entering your adult years, and how does that discourage or encourage voters? >> well, i think about the fact that millennials, the oldest was only 27 when the economic crisis hit. and they have been trucking struggling with a number of issues. we took a poll in the last weeks that show that the economy is the top issue, student loan debt and the environment. and what is born out in those numbers, that young people care very much about the issues, and they are struggling with the same thing that many of the rest of the people in this country are.

one of the things in the poll that we thought was that 75% of young people believe that voting is a way to have an impact on the issues that they care about. simultaneous to that, there's a distrust of the institution and the process of voting, so as a country, we have a responsibility to do a better job of bringing young people, who we have toare not just young people, but they're new voters and new to the process of we no longer have a robust situation to get them arranged. one thing that they have been doing for years is making senior that young people are familiar with the process to access the voter registration, and it's easy, and the laws are es to understand what you need to bring with you to the polls, voter education and who is on the ballot. >> it becomes an issue once somebody decides to vote. those things come into play absolutely. but i'm thinking about the young people who say that they

shug, and i don't vote, i'm not interested. and i'm not aware of who the candidates are, who they fight over, or i'm just tired of the whole thing. how do you pull those people in? is it worth doing? is there a high cost per voter compared to a 40-year-old or 60-year-old? >> yes, of course. there's a lot of shared responsibility to go around. right now, you have a system where people are focused on engaging older people who are more consistent voters, which is, by the way, what happens when you have a good civic education process in place, and people develop habits to voting and continue to do so as they're older, and also, i actually disagree that young people are apathetic, and as tristen was saying, young people care very much. and they're getting involved in a number of different ways that they think are valuable. higher volunteer rates, and rare

couldn'tingbution rates to non-profits, every young person on this panel is fighting to inspire to get her peers to be more active in the process and more young people are involved in the military. we have to do a better job of addressing the issues that millennials care b. by candidates addressing them is tackling the issues that matter from a different perspective. >> ashley is right, i shouldn't have used shorthand. they are interested and they're following, but they don't draw a line from that interest and passion and interest to the act of voting as a task that actually accomplishes anything. is that fair? >> i would say for this conversation, that's probably fair. but i think that ashley makes a critical point when she says we have to do a better job of gaming. the linchpin to the entire conversation about voting and processing

and participation is engagement. and earlier, before we began the show, you mentioned that in states where there's a higher turnout among millennials, there's a higher turnout among adults so. what's the correlation there? being an adult and purchasing a home and being able to engage in the community in ways that you can't, and you don't have a job and you are buried under be responsibility of adulthood. it makes a big difference, and you're not likely to, on your own be engaged because you can't be concerned about things when you're trying to feed yourself. but however, if campaigns are making a pitch, they come to engage you, and they make that effort, whatever the cost may be, i think that we see that non-voter all of a sudden see themselves in the process. >> well, chelsea, you've run for office, and what's the pitch? ive me the elevator pitch to get a young non-voter into the booth and voting for you, i

guess, if you want to make it personal? >> what i did when i are not for local office in jacksonville, i shared my experiences of going abroad and shared the global water crisis, and how i was going to do that knowledge to impact the city of jacksonville, the st. john's river there in jacksonville, but not only that, but i found out on the campaign trail what their were, and what they werer concerned about, and i doesn't want to just talk to people, but i is followed up with people, there it engaged and active, so one of the things that i think is very important when you're reaching out to a voter is to listen and understand what they're saying, to become informed on the issues that they care about, and then continue to reach out to them. because when people feel that you care about them, it's one of the surest ways to get them interested and open in what

you're standing for to vote for you. that's what i did in jacksonville. i was a native, and i used my experiences and my background, but i also shared my passion. i didn't go out and saying that i knew everything, or making promise that's i knew i couldn't fulfill. so if some of the people on the stage in the federal level could take that, we would be at a much better place, and less failed policies if people were stick to what they know and say i am willing to work on the issues. >> that's chelsea henry, and she approves this is message. when we come back, not hanging back or be consenting to the government, participation is widely denigrated. and are we missing something? especially millennials who put more faith in their friends than the institutions. stay with us, it's "inside >> the homeless, it's not always

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>> welcome back to "inside story," i'm ray suarez. late to the party. millennials in the 2016 vote. cycle after cycle, young voters

have been portrayed as a sleeping enjoyment, a secret weapon, the analyst's fondest dreams, and for a long time in elections, failed to live up to the hype. but wait a minute, we're talking about election day 2016, believe action is important. but not vote. is not voting a political statement too? chelsea henry is with us, christian wilson will and tristen, take it away. is that a responsible choice, a legitimate choice? >> i can't say that it's responsible. i think that the participation is uniquely tied to our life, and mock, that's how it works, but it's important to take note

that when such a large swath of people choose not to participate, there's something fundamentally wrong with the system. and we have to find better ways to engage. and we have to be innovative and creative in how we reach people. we obviously assume a lot of the information to be the outlet. and we have to figure out how to keep with people as we move. i think that this particular generation of our millennial friends, we move around a lot. so to sit still so you can talk to us and is not the way to help you win. >> but i've had young, black and brown people in particular give me a list of ways that the system is be perceived as failing, and getting them to think of themselves as a voter, as participant in the process of the electoral sense is a tough sell.

>> it is a tough sell. but with nothing, if you're running an issue campaign, you have to talk to your constituencies about their values, and we haven't talked a lot about what's happening in our presidential campaigns. but there are others doing it better than others, articulating your value in this process. and it's awakening people. trying fig out well, all of the sense of disenfranchisement, perhapsing this something that i can support that includes me for once, and that's critical. particularly as we try to improve on the successes of our administration and jobs and economy. >> chelsea henry, they say that people of that age are hitting milestones later, and getting married later, taking longer to finish college, and buying

their first house older, and could it be that they are starting to be voterser later? that they will edge into voting habits the way that older generations did, but at a had slightly older age? >> i hope that's not the case, because as millennials, there are 83 millennials in the country, and in 2020, we're projected to be the lectorate. and it's important for us to cast ballot. i ran for office when i was 22, and i encourage young people all the time who feel like the system isn't working for them, to go out and get involved and run someone else's campaign. the thing that we're in it danger. because there are two political parties, and because washington d.c. is not the way that we want it to operate, sitting on the sidelines is not the way it

make change either. we need to be the change, and with enough of us in this country in america, we have power and a voice, and we have to figure out how to use it, to make the change and to be the change. >> one of the candidate, ashley spillane, is the oldest candidate in the race, and it's interesting that young people are particularly enthusiastic about a guy in his mid 70s, so it shows that he's not the most had youthful guy or gal who is necessarily going to attract attention, but candidates do matter, don't they? getting people enthusiastic, and getting them into the arena to become regular voters. yeah, dand dates have a huge mega phone, and they reach to the whole population, and they should be focusing on young people. i think what's interesting about young people, born out in

the polls for the vote. young people are attract to the counter culture canned day of the. but in this particular case, it's the candidates that they feel are communicating authentically. tes very important to this authentic. we have access to a bunch of information, and we have the ability to vet what people are saying, and we sort of sniff out things that don't seem quite right. and that's really important in the underlying tone here. with the young people getting involved here, our message to people? in election cycle is clear. this situation may be frustrating, and you may no longer be affiliating with one party over the other, and frustrated with the choices put in front of you. however, we are the future of this country, and we are responsible. no one is coming to save us. this is on us to stand up and make our voice heard here, and as chelsea was saying, we have the potential to make up 40% of

the lectorate. whatever we want the outcome to be, we have the opportunity to determine that. so it's just very important that young people get involved and don't opt out of the system, though i appreciate how frustrating it can be, and how taxing. >> it's critical to making that happen. when you say, we can affect the outcome, one of the most commonly heard tropes in this conversation is what i dop didn't matter, and you're saying the exact opposite, and they have to believe you to act on it. >> what we do as victims, casting ballots s. the thing that has been focused on that's a hard sell. an individual ballot makes a distance, and it's people coming together and casting it, and that's what the process is to make a determination on the outcome. what's happening now is our violateses, as millennials, dramatically underrepresented

in the people that we are sending to office, and in the alwayses getting passed. and in order for us to get the representation we need, we have to show up. money or masses. we have the masses and we have to be the masses here. >> i want to thank my he guests. chelsi, and tris tip, and ashley. tomorrow, carly fiorina and her tenure on the pharmaceutical board, merck, and why her research and time there gunt sit well with many in the anti-abortion move: i'm ray suarez, and see you next time.

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