State Lawmakers Finding Common Ground

National politicians weren’t the only leaders to win races across the country this month. Candidates running at the state and local levels also bravely stepped up to serve. Often, these individuals are overlooked but their impact is often just as great or even greater. “We really do touch peoples’ lives more than [leaders] at the congressional level. State politics are much closer [to home] and very few people pay attention to them,” says Kayla Young, who was just reelected to the West Virginia House of Delegates. She’s a democrat, and she joins a republican, Beau Baird, to talk about how a new generation of lawmakers from both parties are defying national polarization to find common ground. Baird also won his reelection bid to the Indiana Statehouse. They’re joined by Layla Zaidane, president and CEO of Future Caucus, and Jonathan Holloway, president and CEO of the Henry Luce Foundation. Their conversation was held June 29 and can be watched here.