Christian Paz

California, Washington, D.C., United States

Senior Politics Reporter at Vox

Watching the world of politics for Vox

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Articles

Column: Are Democrats fumbling a golden opportunity?

3 weeks ago | pilotonline.com | Christian Paz

Democrats have a lot to be excited about when they look at President Donald Trump’s polls. Scores of voters have soured on his job performance since he took office. And that group of unhappy voters includes some of Trump’s new 2024 converts — the young voters, disaffected voters, and voters of color who left the Democratic coalition to join Trump’s. But Trump’s losses aren’t translating to Democratic gains.
Is Gen Z actually moving right?

1 month ago | vox.com | Christian Paz

We can confidently say that Gen Z got a lot more Republican over the last couple of years, thanks to a swarm of new, first-time young voters — specifically men of all races. Pre-election polling captured this phenomenon, voter registration trends tracked it, and post-election exit polls suggest ballots reflected it.
There are two Gen Zs

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Christian Paz

We can confidently say that Gen Z got a lot more Republican over the last couple of years, thanks to a swarm of new, first-time young voters — specifically men of all races. Pre-election polling captured this phenomenon, voter registration trends tracked it, and post-election exit polls suggest ballots reflected it.
Why Democrats shouldn’t get too excited about Trump’s lousy polls

1 month ago | vox.com | Christian Paz

Democrats have a lot to be excited about when they look at President Donald Trump’s polls. Scores of voters have soured on his job performance since he took office. And that group of unhappy voters includes some of Trump’s new 2024 converts — the young voters, disaffected voters, and voters of color who left the Democratic coalition to join Trump’s. But Trump’s losses aren’t translating to Democratic gains.
How religion is contributing to a growing divide between Gen Z men and women

1 month ago | vox.com | Christian Paz

Among the persistent mysteries of the 2024 election is the roots of the modern political gender gap, particularly among young people. Though their final vote choices were a bit more nuanced than some pre-election polls suggested, young men and women, aged 18 to 29, had the largest divergence in their vote among the age groups. Gen Z men supported Donald Trump by 14 percentage points; Gen Z women supported Kamala Harris by 17 points, per .
Why some Trump voters regret their choice in 2024

1 month ago | vox.com | Christian Paz

PHILADELPHIA — In September 2024, Sharita White made a desperate choice. After supporting Democrats in previous presidential election cycles, the 37-year-old Black Philadelphian decided she would cast her ballot for Donald Trump. Her life during the Biden years had taken a frustrating turn: Her husband had passed away, she’d lost her job, and she was forced to move with her kids to a Philly neighborhood notorious for crime and fentanyl addiction.
Robert Prevost: Is the new American pope liberal or conservative?

1 month ago | businessandamerica.com | Christian Paz

If there’s one succinct way to describe Pope Francis’s stewardship of the Catholic Church over the last 12 years, it might best be done with three of his own words: “todos, todos, todos” — “everyone, everyone, everyone.”Now, Pope Leo XIV, the church’s new leader and its first American pope, has signaled he plans to continue in that direction. “Allow me to continue that same blessing,” he said in his first public address as pontiff, in a reference to Francis’s final Easter prayers. “God loves us.
What is Trump doing that is still popular?

1 month ago | vox.com | Christian Paz

When Donald Trump took office, he could reasonably claim to be popular — and to have an agenda that was popular, too. He had just won the popular vote and swept every battleground state. Key parts of his economic and domestic agenda were polling well. And his own personal popularity had never been higher — more than half the country viewed him favorably, something that wasn’t true his first time around.
The most surprising things from Trump’s first 100 days

1 month ago | vox.com | Sean Collins |Andrew Prokop |Abdallah Fayyad |Christian Paz

During his campaign, President Donald Trump was exceedingly clear about his plans for a second term. He released policy videos, made sweeping proclamations on the stump, and his allies published reams of ideas, perhaps none as infamous as Project 2025. Americans were told he would embrace tariffs, enact sweeping deportations, shrink the federal workforce, rapidly bring peace to Ukraine, get rid of “woke” military leaders, boost US business, and outlaw taxes on tips, among other things.
Why Zoomers are getting more religious in the post-pandemic era.

2 months ago | vox.com | Christian Paz

For most of the last 30 years, the story of religion in America has been a pretty steady one: a constant, and consistent, drop in religious affiliation every year. Starting in the 1990s, the share of Americans who identified as Christian, or identified with any religion at all, began to drop precipitously. At the same time, those with no religious affiliation — nicknamed “nones” — began to spike. Americans have been steadily losing their religion entirely.