{"id":1656,"date":"2024-11-08T11:29:38","date_gmt":"2024-11-08T19:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/?p=1656"},"modified":"2024-11-08T12:45:29","modified_gmt":"2024-11-08T20:45:29","slug":"oregon-student-by-day-dnc-delegate-by-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/2024\/11\/08\/oregon-student-by-day-dnc-delegate-by-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Oregon student by day, DNC delegate by night"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div id=\"frhd_phs-9ac4eaba2945\" class=\"frhd__heading-container\"><style> \n    @import url(\"https:\/\/fonts.googleapis.com\/css?family=Josefin+Sans&display=swap\");\n    .frhd__heading-container {\n        max-width: 1200px !important;\n        margin: 0 auto;\n        overflow: hidden;\n    }\n    h2.wp-block-fancypost-post-heading{\n        margin: 0;     \n    }\n    #frhd_phs-9ac4eaba2945 .frhd__heading-container p{\n        text-align: center !important;\n    }\n    #frhd_phs-9ac4eaba2945.frhd__block-heading-wrapper{\n    margin-bottom: 10px !important;\n    }\n    #frhd_phs-9ac4eaba2945 p.frhd__prefix {\n        text-align:center;\n        margin: 0;\n        text-align: center;\n        color: #ff6347;\n        font-size: 20px;\n        font-weight:500;\n        line-height: 28px;\n        font-style: normal;\n        text-transform: none;\n        letter-spacing: 0px;\n        text-decoration: none;\n        font-family: Josefin Sans !important;\n    }\n    #frhd_phs-9ac4eaba2945 .frhd__block-hading-tag,\n    #frhd_phs-9ac4eaba2945 .frhd__heading-prefix-content{\n        display: flex;\n        align-items: center;\n        justify-content: center;\n    }\n    #frhd_phs-9ac4eaba2945 h2.wp-block-fancypost-post-heading{\n        max-width: 1200px;\n        text-align: center;\n        color: #1E293B;\n        font-size: 32px;\n        font-weight:300;\n        line-height: 54px;\n        font-style: normal;\n        text-transform: none;\n        letter-spacing: 0px;\n        text-decoration: none;\n        font-family: Josefin Sans !important;\n        position: relative;\n        display: inline-block;\n        margin: 10px 0;\n        white-space: pre-wrap;\n    }\n    #frhd_phs-9ac4eaba2945 p.frhd__subheading{\n        max-width:700px;\n        text-align: center;\n        margin: 0 auto;\n        color: #546275;\n        font-size: 16.8px;\n        font-weight:600;\n        line-height: 24px;\n        font-style: normal;\n        text-transform: none;\n        letter-spacing: 0px;\n        text-decoration: none;\n        font-family: Josefin Sans !important;\n        margin-top: 0;\n    }\n    \n    #frhd_phs-9ac4eaba2945 .frhd__heading-style-1{\n        position: relative;\n        margin-bottom: 0;\n    }\n    \n    #frhd_phs-9ac4eaba2945 .frhd__heading-style-1 h2:before {\n        content: \" \";\n        display: inline-block;\n        background-color: #2B6CB0;\n        height: 2px;\n        width: 150px;\n        background-color:#c4c1c1;\n        margin-right: 20px;\n        background-color: #1E293B;\n        width: 14px;\n        line-height: 0;\n    }\n    #frhd_phs-9ac4eaba2945 .frhd__heading-style-1 h2:after {\n        content: \" \";\n        display: inline-block;\n        background-color: #2B6CB0;\n        height: 2px;\n        width: 150px;\n        background-color:#c4c1c1;\n        margin-left: 20px;\n        background-color: #1E293B;\n        width: 14px;\n        line-height: 0;\n    }\n    \n    \n    \n    \n     \n\n    \n    \n    \n     \n    \n    #frhd_phs-9ac4eaba2945 .frhd__animation-style-1 h2 {\n         \n    }\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    <\/style><div id=\"frhd_phs-9ac4eaba2945\" class=\"frhd__block-heading-wrapper\"><div class=\"frhd__heading-style-1 frhd__block-hading-tag\"><h2 placeholder=\"Blog Heading...\" class=\"wp-block-fancypost-post-heading\">Oregon student by day, DNC delegate by night<br><\/h2><\/div><p placeholder=\"Blog Subheading...\" class=\"frhd__subheading\">Taliek Lopez-Duboff, a junior at the University of Oregon, served as the chair of Oregon\u2019s delegation to the Democratic National Convention.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"font-style:italic;font-weight:400\" class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-post-author-name has-small-font-size\">Ian Proctor<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap wp-block-paragraph\">Last August, Taliek Lopez-Duboff walked onto the floor of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cYou&#8217;ve seen Modern Family? Jesse Tyler Ferguson? He was right there,\u201d said Lopez-Duboff. \u201cNancy Pelosi is right there. These political giants that I&#8217;ve always seen on TV that are larger than life are here, and I have the same access to this convention hall that they do.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lopez-Duboff was visible on television screens across the nation when the Oregon delegation cast its 78 votes for Vice President Kamala Harris.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Taliek Lopez-Duboff, 20, is a junior studying political science and public policy at the University of Oregon. He serves as the president of the school\u2019s student senate.&nbsp; His summer job was serving as the captain of his state\u2019s delegation to the 2024 Democratic National Convention. His job was to \u201ckeep delegates in line with the Harris campaign,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lopez-Dufoff learned about the opportunity while participating in the 2022 \u201cNational Democracy Summer School,\u201d a program through Representative Jamie Raskin\u2019s office. During the program, Lopez-Duboff had lunch with Oregon congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici and asked her how to become a delegate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI said, \u2018You know what, I&#8217;m gonna try, I&#8217;ll run, throw my name in the hat,\u2019\u201d said Lopez-Duboff. \u201cSo I waited until this year, and I was in all these Zoom calls leading up to it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lopez-Duboff entered the race to be a delegate for Oregon\u2019s first congressional district, representing his hometown of Beaverton and won.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When voters vote in primaries for their party\u2019s nominee, they actually cast their votes for delegates pledged to support that candidate, <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/presidential-election-delegate-selection-process-primary-caucus-9720daa8d706a4afceaa2d939f59a1b9\">according to the Associated Press<\/a>. Initially, Taliek was a pledged delegate for President Joe Biden, who won the Oregon Democratic primary on May 21. But following President Biden\u2019s much-criticized performance during the first presidential debate, Taliek said there were internal conversations about who could replace the president.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOf course, it happened, and I\u2019d been talking to a lot of journalists,\u201d said Lopez-Duboff. \u201cOh my God, the Washington Post called my office phone. The New York Times called my cell phone. I had Axios and the Associated Press, and I thought, \u2018Oh my God, this is bigger than me.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Taliek-Lopez-Duboff2-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1651\" style=\"width:400px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Taliek-Lopez-Duboff2-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Taliek-Lopez-Duboff2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Taliek-Lopez-Duboff2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Taliek-Lopez-Duboff2-1536x1153.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Taliek-Lopez-Duboff2.jpg 1999w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When Biden dropped out of the race and endorsed Kamala Harris, Taliek Lopez-Duboff said there was no real question that Harris would be the next in line. Had Biden not endorsed Harris as the Democratic presidential nominee, Lopez-Duboff says he would have either voted for Harris, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, or Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, who later became Harris\u2019 running mate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI would think either a moderate figure, like Governor Walz, or somebody that would be history-making, like Governor Whitmer,\u201d said Lopez-Duboff. \u201cRight now I think the Democratic Party has a really strong bench of people they could have brought up.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Union activist April Milan also served as a DNC delegate for the first time, in 2024. Milan, 51, said described Lopez-Duboff as a \u201cpolitician in a college student\u2019s body\u201d and saw him as a future leader. Young people tend to feel disillusioned by politics \u2013 but not Taliek, she said<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe don\u2019t normally understand that age group\u2019s perspective on the government. So it was interesting to see Taliek\u2019s perspective,\u201d said Milan.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As Oregon\u2019s second-youngest delegate in history, Lopez-Duboff said he felt a sense of responsibility to young people around the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI felt a new dawn in our nation. We have the first woman of color as a presidential nominee. I felt alive.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last August, Taliek Lopez-Duboff walked onto the floor of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. \u201cYou&#8217;ve seen Modern Family? Jesse Tyler Ferguson? He was right there,\u201d said Lopez-Duboff. \u201cNancy Pelosi is right there. These political giants that I&#8217;ve always seen on TV that are larger than life are here, and I have the same access [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":1652,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ub_ctt_via":"","pmpro_default_level":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"top_category":[],"class_list":["post-1656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-profiles","pmpro-has-access"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Taliek-Lopez-Duboff1.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Ian Proctor","author_link":"https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/author\/ian-proctor\/"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Taliek-Lopez-Duboff1.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1656"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1662,"href":"https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1656\/revisions\/1662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1656"},{"taxonomy":"top_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/top_category?post=1656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}