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5:53Now PlayingCristina Tzintzún Ramirez, executive director of NextGen America, joins the Damage Report for an interview. She discusses the importance of the youth vote in the election, Israel-Hamas War and so much more. John Iadarola and Sharon Reed break it down on The Damage Report.
A flood of new data on young voters has just come out and it shows their enthusiastic reaction to Vice President Kamala Harris taking over as the Democratic nominee for president. Beyond brat memes, coconut tree emojis, and nearly $2 million in sales for a camo hat to support the Harris-Walz campaign, polling insights prove that the online momentum is reflected by IRL voter sentiment. (The below surveys were conducted before Minnesota Governor Tim Walz joined the Harris campaign as her vice presidential nominee.)
Here’s what you need to know about how young people have shifted their thinking since President Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 race.
Harris is making inroads with the young voters Biden struggled to please
Whether national polls of young registered voters or youth-focused polls in battleground states, all signs point to a spike in enthusiasm for Harris over Biden.
Fifty-six percent of 18 to 29-year-olds said they would vote for Harris if the election were held today, while 38% said they would vote for former President Donald Trump, according to a national New York Times-Siena College poll of registered voters, conducted from July 22-24. A month earlier, Trump was leading Biden with the under-30 cohort in the same survey — a huge shift from 2020, when Biden captured 61% of young voters.
Meanwhile, Harris’s favorability among young people jumped 16 points since July 3, according to an August 5 poll of registered voters under 30 in battleground states, conducted by youth pollster John Della Volpe’s Social Sphere. That same poll, first shared with Politico, found a 13-point boost in support for Harris since July in a two-way matchup with Trump.
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