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2024 Election: Trump Gains Major Ground with Young People from 3 Key Voting Demos

By Michael Schwarz June 11, 2024 at 7:00am

President Joe Biden’s catastrophic administration has left young Americans of nearly every description seeking an alternative.

In fact, according to the GenForward May 2024 survey of 2,089 adults aged 18-40, Biden’s 2020 coalition of young black, Latinx (a gender-neutral term for people of Latin American heritage) and Gen Z voters in general has evaporated, leaving the octogenarian Democrat in an overall statistical tie with former President Donald Trump five months before the 2024 presidential election.

Created by University of Chicago political scientist Cathy J. Cohen and administered by the university’s National Opinion Research Center, the survey helped quantify the magnitude of young voters’ flight from the Biden camp, as well as the reasons for their exodus.

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Michael Schwarz holds a Ph.D. in History and has taught at multiple colleges and universities. He has published one book and numerous essays on Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and the Early U.S. Republic. He loves dogs, baseball, and freedom. After meandering spiritually through most of early adulthood, he has rediscovered his faith in midlife and is eager to continue learning about it from the great Christian thinkers.