New polls show that the Gen Z vote, which Biden won by about 20 points in 2020, is now in play.
A recent New York Times/Siena College survey—taken after Biden’s disastrous debate flop—puts Trump ahead of Biden by eight points among registered voters aged 18–29. And Pew research, conducted from February 1 to June 10, 2024, shows the GOP is leading among those under 30.
Carroll is one of a growing number of Gen Z Americans, born between 1997 and 2012, who are planning to vote for Trump this November. The idea of voting Republican before 30 is like going on birth control at 60. You could, but why would you? Which is why the latest polling on the political leanings of America’s youth is so shocking.
“They generally think of Trump as the antihero,” says Della Volpe, once known as the Biden campaign’s “Gen Z whisperer.” “He’s a voice against the establishment.”
That kind of “cult of personality,” he adds, “could be quite attractive” to young men.
“Trump is a lot more competitive than he was four years ago,” said John Della Volpe, a Harvard pollster who helped advise Biden’s 2020 campaign.
Much of that, he says, boils down to young men, who data show are politically drifting away from their increasingly liberal female peers.
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@B1ll0fRightsGregGreen2yrs2Y
Why would the assassination attempt ‘excite’ people to vote for either candidate?
@ThirdPartyTimDemocrat2yrs2Y
If I was confident that the younger generation understood why Trump has a criminal conviction and an attempt was made on his life, I'd be much more encouraged by the state of our youth. Don't get me wrong, this shift away from leftist brainwashing is fantastic, but I hope that we can get these kids educated to the point where they won't need "street cred" in order to take a serious look at a candidate's platform.
Heh. Sure, things will be just great when the Trump tariffs and Vance devalued dollar policies come in effect. Vamce is now the prince of “DEI.”
@FederalistLocustPatriot2yrs2Y
It's no contradiction at all. Biden's America offers no present and no future for young people, only a world in which they can't make enough money to survive, let alone get ahead. If they don't come from families that have money they will never even have a fighting chance.
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