Biden's support among young voters couldn't be lower.
Support from young folks who consider themselves Democrats is at 1%.
One of the bits of news that was interesting to me reading the latest New York Times/Siena poll was how bad Joe Biden is doing with young voters.
It’s really bad.
To be clear, Biden isn’t doing great with any Democratic Party age group.
Two thirds of the Democrats polled said they would prefer somebody else.
In spite of clear evidence that Donald Trump essentially committed treason on January 6 and that electeds from the Republican Party are co-conspirators, Biden polls ahead of Trump by a number within the margin of error.
I know inflation is bad but Trump led an insurrection. Biden should be trouncing the guy.
Just 1 percent of 18-to-29-year-olds strongly approve of the way Mr. Biden is handling his job. And 94 percent of Democrats under 30 said they wanted another candidate to run two years from now. Of all age groups, young voters were most likely to say they wouldn’t vote for either Mr. Biden or Mr. Trump in a hypothetical 2024 rematch.
Young voters aren’t Trumpers.
When it comes to issues they are a progressive demographic.
And it’s not ageism. I’m 74 and I totally agree with them.
“Young people, long among the least reliable part of the party’s coalition, marched for gun control, rallied against Mr. Trump and helped fuel a Democratic wave in the 2018 midterm elections.” (NY Times)
While policy and politics matter to younger voters, so does age. The Democratic party looks and sounds like a group geezers.
At 79, Mr. Biden is the oldest president in U.S. history and just one of several Democratic Party leaders pushing toward or into their 80s. Nancy Pelosi, the House speaker, is 82. The House majority leader, Steny Hoyer, is 83. The 71-year-old Senate majority leader, Chuck Schumer, is the baby of the bunch. Mr. Trump is 76.
I’ve been retired for ten years and except for Schumer, I’m younger than all of the the leaders of the national Democratic Party.
Robert Reich, a former US secretary of labor and professor of public policy at the University of California at Berkeley (and a grey head like me) wrote in The Guardian:
Santayana said old people have forebodings about the future because they cannot imagine a world that’s good without themselves in it. I don’t share that view. To the contrary, I think my generation — including Bill and Hillary, George W, Trump, Newt Gingrich, Clarence Thomas, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, and Biden – have f*cked it up royally. The world will probably be better without us.
Joe, please don’t run.
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