Calls for generational change and dissatisfaction with the status quo have been at the center of campaigns by younger candidates. While that has lifted some to victory, others have fallen short.

An Arizona special election primary Tuesday to replace the late Rep. Raúl Grijalva is the latest flare-up of the Democratic Party’s clashes over age and experience.

Mr. Hogg compared Ms. Foxx’s late surge in support to the shocking success of a 33-year-old democratic socialist, Zohran Mamdani, who last month overtook Governor Cuomo, the frontrunner candidate, to win the Democratic nomination for New York City mayor.

The next test of who Democratic voters want to see leading the party will take place Tuesday in southwest Arizona, where three leading candidates are offering competing visions in the primary to fill the late Rep.

Adelita Grijalva’s landslide win over Deja Foxx shows that real-world connections still matter more than social media influence in politics.

Adelita Grijalva, daughter of the late Congressman Raúl Grijalva, won Tuesday's Democratic primary in the special election to replace her father, and will advance to this fall’s general election.

Tensions within the Democratic Party over age, representation and experience have roiled a special election primary in southwest Arizona, where a young, social media-savvy activist is taking on the daughter of Rep.

Adelita Grijalva, 54, bested four other contenders, the Associated Press reported, including 25-year-old Gen Z content creator Deja Foxx ... the Arizona contest was less about ideological divisions than generational ones. Grijalva and Foxx both ran ...

While Adelita Grijalva is polling ahead in the CD7 Democratic primary it’s another candidate who’s making all of the headlines in this race: 25-year-old Deja Foxx.