Interests of an 18-Year-Old

An 18-year-old's interests are college access and affordability, first-job availability, reproductive autonomy and contraceptive access, a livable climate, gun safety on campuses, and basic civic-rights protection (voting access, anti-deportation if undocumented). Abbott's ending of in-state tuition for ~18,500 undocumented Texas students directly defunds the college-affordability vector for a substantial subgroup; SB 8's abortion ban removes a core reproductive-autonomy backstop; SB 12 restricts pronoun use and LGBTQ student clubs on campus; permitless carry expanded handgun carry to anyone 21+. Hinojosa's positions on each — reversing the tuition reversal, reproductive-rights restoration, opposing SB 12, opposing permitless carry — align with the 18-year-old's stated interests. Hinojosa is the substantially closer fit; Abbott picks up only the first-job-availability strand on business-friendly climate.