Are Young Voters Ready to Elect the Next President? Not Yet, Say Generation Dissatisfied

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, hosted an event on campus for Riley Gaines—a collegiate swimmer who, along with other athletes, over its transgender policy, accusing the organization of violating their Title IX rights after it allowed transgender woman Lia Thomas to compete in the women’s division during a national swimming championship.

The event led to a television news appearance for Nangle, which in turn sparked the beginning of the end of her friendships. “Me saying that men don’t belong in women’s sports on Fox News was too much for them,” she says, noting that they told her her stance “hurt people that they love.”`Kieghan Nangle, a graduate of the University of Alabama, is now media affairs coordinator for the Republican National Committee.Nangle, from Texas, says her beliefs—that include being pro-life—were shaped by her Christian faith and upbringing; she now works on Trump’s reelection as part of the Republican National Committee.

But despite her now very public views, she was initially extremely wary of sharing her true political perspective on campus. “I had the idea that I was conservative, but I had been made to feel nervous to talk about anything politics at all,” she says with an air of frustration.Nangle explains that even in Alabama—a red state where abortion is illegal—she feared social retribution for sharing her unfiltered opinions on campus despite the fact, she says, “I’m a firm believer in having tough skin and being able to hear things that you don’t like, and still love somebody at the end of the day.” It’s an experience many other conservative women on college campuses likely face, given that most of their peers lean further left.