Katty Kay
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And you've got a lot of young voters in the country saying and young candidates in the country saying it's our turn now.
No.
I mean, it's remarkable.
And we've unearthed social media posts that have been accused of being homophobic, of being misogynist.
There's the Totenkopf skull image on his tattoo.
He puts all that down to youthful indiscretions.
And I think in this weird social media era where this idea of authenticity, which never has to be quite defined, and you've got other candidates as well saying you've got it in Michigan as well.
One of the more centrist Democratic candidates, Mallory McMorrow, had these social media posts from when she first moved to Michigan from California saying, oh, this makes me miss California even more.
And now, of course, that's got dragged up by her opponents saying, see, she's not really from Michigan.
She just misses California.
She wants to be a Californian.
Her competitors are saying that.
And what's her reply?
Well, it shows that I'm authentic.
So that's how candidates are getting around this.
They're saying, well, whatever I said in the past, YOLO, you know, I was being authentic in my youth.
And that put that down to youth and indiscretion.
And by the way, you, the voter, you recognize that we've all posted things on social media that we're embarrassed by.
And it just makes me human.
I think you're going to see an awful lot of that, by the way, in this area of social media, where people have to disavow things they've said in the past in social media.