American activist and politician Maxwell Alejandro Frost was born on January 17, 1997. Being the Democratic nominee in the 2022 election, he won the seat as the 10th congressional district of Florida’s youngest representative-elect at the age of 25. He previously served as March for Our Lives’ national organizing director.
On the evening of November 8, the Associated Press projected Frost the winner of the 2022 election. He was the second child born in the 1990s and the first elected member of Generation Z. (after Madison Cawthorn).
Early Life Of Alejandro Frost
On January 17, 1997, a Puerto Rican woman of Lebanese origin and a Haitian man welcomed Frost into the world. His biological mother had a large family and had been a victim of abuse. He was adopted as a baby; his adoptive parents are a Kansas-based musician and a special education teacher who immigrated to the country from Cuba via the Freedom Flights. Frost claims to be Afro-Cuban. In June 2021, he got in touch with his birth mother again. In Orlando, Frost attended Osceola County School for the Arts. He has been enrolled in Valencia College as of June 2022.
Personal Life
Frost is bilingual in English and Spanish. He plays the timbales and is a jazz drummer. Seguro Que S, a nine-piece band from his high school, took part in the procession for Obama’s second inauguration in 2013.
Alejandro Frost And Politics
Since he participated in Barack Obama’s 2012 presidential campaign, Frost has been organizing. Additionally, he participated in volunteer work for the Newtown Action Alliance, a group established in the wake of the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School. His list of events that influenced his perspective includes Occupy Wall Street, the Columbine High School Massacre, the murder of Trayvon Martin, and the Orlando nightclub shooting. Later, he worked for Margaret Good, Hillary Clinton, and Bernie Sanders. Before changing his foreign policy stance in 2022, Frost was a pro-Palestine activist and held pro-Palestinian ideals. In 2016, Frost survived a shooting at a Halloween celebration in Downtown Orlando.
As an ACU activist, Frost worked to support Florida’s 2018 Amendment 4 and put pressure on Joe Biden to abandon his support for the Hyde Amendment in 2019. He oversaw the March for Our Lives movement’s national organizing. At a demonstration for voting rights in Lafayette Square in November 2021 that was organized by William Barber II and Ben Jealous, Frost was detained.
U.S House Of Representatives
Frost made his bid for the Democratic nomination for Florida’s 10th congressional district known in August 2021. He launched a television advertisement in Spanish during the primary campaign, telling The Hill, “Latinos are in a place where their first language is Spanish but they speak English as well, and quite frankly that’s me, We speak Spanglish in the house, and I know that’s the same for a lot of Latino families in the district.”
Who Did Alejandro Frost Defeats?
Randolph Bracy, a state senator, and a former U.S. Representatives Corrine Brown and Alan Grayson, among others, will run in the primary on August 23, 2022. Frost was predicted to win the main election in November due to the Democratic lean of the district. if won, he would become the youngest member of Congress, the first member of Generation Z, and the first Afro-Cuban member of Congress.
Which Politicians Endorsed Alejandro Frost?
Numerous prominent individuals in local and national politics, such as Jesse Jackson, former NAACP President Ben Jealous, civil rights activist Dolores Huerta, and U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, supported him. Frost is the first person from Generation Z to be elected to Congress as a result of his victory.
Alejandro Frost’s Political Positions
Environmental Justice
Gun control
Single-payer healthcare
Criminal justice
Foreign policy
Frost has stated his intention to visit Israel. Frost is in support of “US leadership in bringing peace to a region that so desperately needs and deserves it.” He also supports a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He has referred to himself as “pro-Israel and pro-Palestine.” He backs unrestricted American military assistance to Israel.
He backs unrestricted American military assistance to Israel. He has condemned the Palestinian Authority’s martyr fund, which provides compensation to the families of slain and injured militants, and compared it to a Hamas recruitment strategy used to incite violence against Israel. Frost passionately opposes the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement, claims that it supports terrorist organizations’ leadership, and advises that companies that support BDS be divested as well.
