A 25-year-old from a small town leads North Carolina's Democratic Party toward 2024

Anderson Clayton, 25, chair of the North Carolina Democratic Party, is the youngest state party chair in the country. She wants to help Democrats reach rural and young voters. (Eamon Queeney for NPR)

ROXBORO, N.C. — Anderson Clayton understands why young people have problems with the Democratic Party. She does too.

"I used to joke with people that if I didn't run for something else, I was going to be leaving the Democratic Party," she told the audience at a recent event in Washington, D.C.