On The Record (OTR) -US House of Representatives - D51

Jurisdiction Montgomery County (6)

In a phone interview with HuffPost, Vogel noted that U.S. Rep. Jamie Raskin (D), the youngest member of Maryland’s congressional delegation, was born in 1962.

“When it comes to lived experience, there is an entire generational perspective that is missing,” he said. “There is an entire perspective of a community — of multiple communities — that has been missing in the conversation.”

Vogel sees age as an important lens for appreciating the urgency of issues like climate change and gun violence.

“We need to have our generation at the table as we’re dealing with these challenges,” he said. “And we have to bring urgency on these fronts.”

Vogel hopes to succeed Rep. David Trone (D) in Maryland’s 6th Congressional District, a Democrat-leaning seat that stretches from the Washington suburbs all the way out to the rural and conservative Maryland panhandle. (Trone, the multimillionaire founder of the Total Wine chain, is running for a U.S. Senate seat due to be vacated by retiring Democratic Sen. Ben Cardin in 2024.)