were so gallantly streaming. and the rockets reed glare red glare, the bombs bursting in air gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. o, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave o er the land of the free and the home of the brave pete: good morning. that was our nation s anthem as is the tradition here on fox & friends weekend. thanks for sending in presumably maybe some fourth of july photos with the kiddos there. and. a lot of beautiful babies. pete: speaking of beautiful babies, will cain, carley shimkus in today for rachel campos duffy. carley: love to see the kids in the red, white and blue, nothing like it. i hope that you are still feeling the fourth of july spirit into the fourth of july weekend. this is the fourth of july weekend, isn t it? will: i think a lot of people took the entire week off, made it a 10-day carley: isn t that a beautiful way to do that? will: i don t know, tell me about it. pete: it was great. [laught
primary contest, some prominent democrats including aoc and adam schiff are aggressively pushing to lower the voting age. earlier this year new york congresswoman grace may reintroduced legislation that would change the voting age to just 16 saying, quote, 16 and 17-year-olds are legally permitted to work, drive, and they also pay federal income taxes. they are contributing members of our society, and i believe it is right and fair to allow them to vote in our elections. here to react, host of the spillover podcast and turning point usa contributor alex clark, recent grad and former chairman of the gw college republicans, former president of gw for israel, ezra mayer, gen-z voter and staff writer or and social chair for the chicago thinker, georgia kneel jackson. it s good to see you all this morning. alex, i ll start with you. as politically-minded and intelligent as you are, tell us what you were doing at 16 years old and if you felt mature
enough to vote. gosh, at 16, well, i would say i m the exception, right? like, i was conservative. i grew up in a conservative family. but we know that typically that is not the case. democrats rely on two things to win elections, voters having low to little information and the less real world experience the better. statistically, young people in every generation lean left until they start three things, marriage, mortgage and and making babies. the brookings institute has actually called these conservativizing life events, and you can add a fourth on to that which would be paying taxes. if the democrats lower the voting age even just another 2 or years to 16, that is more time they have to easily manipulate minds that have not experienced any conservativizing life events yet. the good news is at least this voting group of people we re talking about has a pulse. so that s a plus. we can work with it. [laughter] carley: i am picking up your point there. ezra, so democrats who support