Cuban part-time Uber driver becomes first Gen Z congressman

Maxwell Alejandro Frost, a part-time Uber driver and Cuban adoptee, has become the first Gen Z member of Congress after winning his Florida race on Tuesday.

The 25-year-old defeated Republican Calvin Wimbish in the state’s 10th Congressional District, a heavily blue Orlando-area district vacated by Rep. Val Demings to challenge Sen. Marco Rubio for his Senate seat.

“We made history tonight,” Frost declared at his watch party after his victory.

He was put up for adoption by his Cuban mother, who struggled in the U.S. after fleeing the communist country, according to The Daily Mail.

The social justice activist said he was motivated to run after reuniting with his biological mother last year and learning she suffered from drug addiction.

“She didn't have a lot of money. She didn't have access to the medicine she needed and health care,” Frost said. “So I want to fight for a world, for a country where everyone can have money, have access to a good life.”

The newcomer received the backing of national progressives like Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, as well as Demings.

“I'm proud to support Maxwell Alejandro Frost for Congress because he's going to continue to fight to end gun violence, take on our housing crisis, bring down rising costs, and continue to be the bold leader Central Florida needs in D.C.,” Demings said in a statement on Friday.

He raised over $2.5 million by election night.

A former March For Our Lives organizer, Frost emphasized gun control during his campaign because of how he grew up with “more mass-shooting drills than fire drills.” He says he first became an activist after the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting and personally survived a shooting in downtown Orlando on Halloween 2016.

His predecessor Demings lost to the incumbent Rubio by over 16 points on Tuesday as part of a red wave in the Sunshine State.