Photo: Mic Smith / Associated Press.YouTube star Connor Franta asked the candidates how they planned to appeal to millennial voters. "What I want to know is how are all of you planning on engaging [the millennial generation] further in this election?" he asked.
The question was addressed to all the candidates, but it was Hillary Clinton who struggled with it the most. She started by complimenting Franta on his social media success.
“Congratulations on 5 million viewers on YouTube," she said. "That’s quite an accomplishment.” (Franta has 5 million subscribers, not viewers.)
She also brought up social issues, like voting rights, LGBT equality, and women's rights. “I know how much young people value their independence and autonomy and their rights,” she said. “This is an election where we have to pull young people and older people together.”
But moderator Lester Holt made Clinton confront the support that’s been going to her rival. “Why is Senator Sanders beating you two to one among younger voters?”
“I have the greatest respect for Senator Sanders and for his supporters; and I’m going to keep working as hard as I can to reach as many people of all ages about what I will do, about the experience and ideas that I have that I will bring to the White House, and I hope to have their support when I’m the Democratic nominee.”
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