{"id":2247833,"date":"2024-05-19T08:30:12","date_gmt":"2024-05-19T12:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/they-were-children-when-trump-was-president-now-young-voters-hold-bidens-fate-2\/"},"modified":"2024-05-19T08:34:31","modified_gmt":"2024-05-19T12:34:31","slug":"they-were-children-when-trump-was-president-now-young-voters-hold-bidens-fate-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/they-were-children-when-trump-was-president-now-young-voters-hold-bidens-fate-2\/","title":{"rendered":"As kids during Trump&#8217;s presidency, young voters shape Biden&#8217;s future"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthey-were-children-when-trump-was-president-now-young-voters-hold-bidens-fate-2%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2247833&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The text discusses\u200c young\u2062 voters&#8217; evolving views on the upcoming elections, influenced by their experiences \u200cduring Trump&#8217;s presidency and their current perceptions of Biden. It highlights the significant role this generation plays in shaping political outcomes, with a focus\u200b on \u200cBiden&#8217;s strategies to engage and mobilize youthful voters effectively. The article delves into how young voters&#8217; perspectives on the upcoming elections are \u200cshifting due \u200dto their encounters with Trump&#8217;s presidency and their present perceptions of Biden. It emphasizes the \u200dpivotal role of this demographic in\u200d shaping political results and examines Biden&#8217;s tactics to effectively involve and mobilize youthful voters.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>COLLEGE PARK, MARYLAND<\/strong> \u2014\u00a0Ben Mason, a freshman studying aerospace engineering at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/university-of-maryland\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"University of Maryland\">University of Maryland<\/a>, admits he was too young to remember former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"University of Maryland\">Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s first term in detail.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI guess I wouldn\u2019t say I was old enough or aware enough of the world to actually remember what happened,\u201d said Mason, who is 19 years old and plans on voting for the first time in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/2024-elections\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>November<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat happened when I was in middle school, so I would definitely have to go back and revisit everything, just to see what I actually remember, what I need to re-learn,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The Kansas City native said some of the gaps in his memory may have to do with the fact that his parents attempted to shield him from events that happened during the Trump years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo an extent they tried to protect me \u2014 but I think if I went to go look for that information, they weren\u2019t going to tell me I couldn\u2019t or anything,\u201d he said.\u00a0 \u201cI definitely lean more liberally, so I would say <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/Joe-Biden\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Joe Biden<\/a> is the better option. But, I would prefer there\u2019d be a better third option.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption>Credit: Washington Examiner<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Mason is one of the nearly 4.2 million newly eligible voters this year, who were in middle school when Trump was first elected. Roughly 41 million <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/generation-z\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Gen Z<\/a> Americans\u00a0\u2014 ages 18 to 27\u00a0\u2014 will be eligible to vote this year, according to Tufts University. <\/p>\n<p>Young voters helped deliver Joe Biden his first White House victory in 2020, winning 61% of voters under 30 and 55% between 30 and 44, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnorc.org\/projects\/ap-votecast-2020-general-elections\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title><em>AP VoteCast<\/em> survey<\/a> of the electorate. In 2016, young voters <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/politics\/2018\/08\/09\/an-examination-of-the-2016-electorate-based-on-validated-voters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>ultimately helped Trump<\/a> win by either choosing a third-party candidate or deciding to stay home. Experts believe this critical group of voters will ultimately decide the 2024 presidential race. <\/p>\n<p>Ella Murray, a freshman studying biology, said she hasn\u2019t decided which candidate to support. She admits she doesn\u2019t have many memories of what life was like when Trump was president.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was 13, so I wasn\u2019t super involved in politics at that age,\u201d Murray said, on her way to a final exam on campus. \u201cI think re-educating myself would be a good bet.\u201d <\/p>\n<h2>Polling shows warning signs for Biden with young voters<\/h2>\n<p>Recent polling data suggests Biden\u2019s approval rating has taken a hit among young Americans and there are warning signs Trump could be making inroads with this critical electorate, who may have been too young to remember his presidency. <\/p>\n<p>While the majority of surveys show Biden leading among young voters, many of them show he\u2019s leading with the demographic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/politics\/elections\/biden-trump-polls-swing-state-takeaways-42e42d41\">by less <\/a>than he did back in 2020. There are a couple exceptions, like the <a href=\"https:\/\/maristpoll.marist.edu\/polls\/april-2024-presidential-election\/\">NPR\/<em>PBS Newshour<\/em>\/Marist poll <\/a>last month that showed Trump two points ahead of Biden among millennial and Gen-Z voters. A couple of months earlier, <a href=\"https:\/\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Fox_March-22-25-2024_National_Cross-Tabs_March-27-Release.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>a Fox News poll<\/a> found Trump was leading with Biden among voters under 30 by 18 points. A <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/biden-has-marginal-1-point-lead-over-trump-reutersipsos-poll-shows-2024-03-14\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Reuters<\/a><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/biden-has-marginal-1-point-lead-over-trump-reutersipsos-poll-shows-2024-03-14\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>\/Ipsos poll <\/a>in March found voters 18-29 years old preferred Biden over Trump by just 3 percentage points, 29% to 26%. <\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s plenty of evidence to show young voters are disillusioned by their lack of choices in this election. While 26% overall have a negative view of both Trump and Biden, a significantly larger 41% of young voters dislike both, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/iop.harvard.edu\/youth-poll\/47th-edition-spring-2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>poll<\/a> by Harvard\u2019s Kennedy School of Government. That same survey of voters under 30 showed Biden ahead by more than 20 points over Trump, but less than half planned to vote this year.<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption>A sign at the Gaza solidarity encampment at George Washington University urges people to vote against Joe Biden in Maryland\u2019s presidential primary, Washington, DC, May 6, 2024. Many demonstrators are unhappy with Biden\u2019s failure to rein in the Israeli siege of Gaza, which has kiled more than 35,000 people, most of them women and children. (Photo by Allison Bailey\/NurPhoto via AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Saaketh Vemuneri, a freshman studying computer science, could be one of those voters \u2014 he admits that he may ultimately decide to stay home if participating in the election doesn\u2019t work with his schedule. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I just can\u2019t, if that day doesn\u2019t work out for me, or I have something else to do, then yeah, I probably won\u2019t vote,\u201d Vemuneri said. \u201cI have a very open mind, so I don\u2019t sway one way or another, so if I do decide to vote, I\u2019ll probably end up voting for whoever I like most at the time,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>While polling doesn\u2019t always translate to real life, the results are an early warning sign for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/Democrats\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Democrats<\/a>, who have relied on younger voters during successful presidential cycles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m definitely most worried about turnout, because young people aren\u2019t really excited about either candidate on any of the issues,\u201d said Ashley Aylward,\u00a0a senior researcher at the Democratic polling firm HIT Strategies. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe young voter electorate has really changed the outcome of elections in the past few years between 2020 with the last Biden versus Trump election as well as midterms.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Despite their impact to sway an election, Aylward said young voters now are \u201cjust overwhelmingly unmotivated because of their dissatisfaction and not feeling really excited about either candidate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/blueprint2024.com\/polling\/youth-poll-may\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>new poll<\/a> released on Thursday by Democratic-aligned public opinion research group <a href=\"https:\/\/blueprint2024.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Blueprint<\/a> found most young voters trust Biden over Trump to handle most things, except for two concerns that \u201cmay be the defining issues of the 2024 election.\u201d The poll found that 52% trust Trump more when it comes to lowering prices and that 53% trust Trump more to secure the border, statistics those in Democratic circles believe are worth paying attention to. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cYoung voters are much closer ideologically to Joe Biden than they are to Donald Trump,\u201d Evan Roth Smith, the lead pollster for Blueprint, said. \u201cBut, the two biggest issues of this election, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/inflation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>inflation<\/a> and immigration, it\u2019s very notable that with young voters \u2014 those are the only places Donald Trump has an advantage, and it\u2019s particularly concerning.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The polling found that nearly every <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/young-voters-trust-trump-over-biden-on-two-defining-issues-of-2024-election-poll\/\" title=\"Poll: Young voters favor Trump over Biden on key 2024 election issues\">young voter answered<\/a> that economic concern was a top issue and as a whole, inflation and the economy were the most frequently prioritized issues, chosen by 73% and 70% of young voters. <\/p>\n<p>Aylward believes Democrats and the Biden campaign need to do better in getting the word out about Biden\u2019s accomplishments in addressing inflation and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/economy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>economy<\/a>, specifically targeting young voter awareness. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we ask voters, \u2018do you feel your cost of living is better in the past four years versus the past eight years under the Trump administration?\u2019 Gen Z voters really don\u2019t know how to answer and they end up falling more in the don\u2019t know and neutral because they weren\u2019t financially independent at the time,\u201d Aylward explained. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd then, there\u2019s the added issue of a large chunk of this group, being college students and at home during COVID or entering the workforce, but still being at home because of the pandemic. It\u2019s just a different beast that we haven\u2019t had to navigate before because we didn\u2019t have a giant pandemic,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<h2>Biden campaign seeks to refresh memories of Trump<\/h2>\n<p>The Biden campaign said it is investing in a robust operation to reach first-time voters and refresh their memories about what happened during the Trump years. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cDonald Trump poses a direct threat to young people \u2014 their economic futures, the ability to make their own <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/healthcare\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>health care<\/a> decisions, to love who they love, and to live free from the threat of gun violence are all on the line in this election,\u201d said Seth Schuster, a Biden campaign spokesman in a statement provided to the <em>Washington Examiner. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe job of campaigns is to educate and remind voters of the stakes of the election \u2014 and unlike Trump\u2019s basement campaign, the Biden-Harris campaign is working every single day to talk to, mobilize, and earn the votes of young Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/president\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>president<\/a>\u2019s reelection campaign launched its outreach effort and hired a youth engagement director in January, when in previous cycles the position wasn\u2019t hired until the end of the summer, the campaign said.  <\/p>\n<p>The Biden team\u2019s strategy is to meet young voters where they are: on college campuses, on social media, and in places they congregate like musical festivals, sporting events, and bars. The campaign has been releasing digital ads since the president\u2019s reelection became official and is targeting them to skew toward young voters, including the current $14 million ad campaign for the month of May. The campaign is also relying on influencers they\u2019ve cultivated relationships with since 2020, to help reach more young voters online who may not be as politically involved. <\/p>\n<figure><figcaption>Madeleine Byrnes, a master\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/they-were-children-when-trump-was-president-now-young-voters-hold-bidens-fate\/\" title=\"Young voters, once children during Trump's presidency, now wield influence over Biden's future\">degree candidate studying speech pathology<\/a> at Wayne State University, writes in a notebook in Birmingham, Mich., Feb. 15, 2024. In Michigan, a state that both major parties say they must have to win the White House in 2024, a cloud of apathy has settled over the electorate. Byrnes, a 25-year-old Republican from Oakland County, says she sees signs of slowing in President Joe Biden, but that former President Donald Trump \u201ccauses fights,\u201d and that she has \u201cbeen thinking about whether I want to vote or not.\u201d (AP Photo\/Thomas Beaumont)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In March, the campaign launched a <a href=\"https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/press.joebiden.com\/first-lady-jill-biden-launches-women-for-biden-harris-6716310\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>national student organizing<\/a> program to build on-campus infrastructure to reach first-time voters and prepare organizers to hit the ground running in the fall. In addition, the campaign is<a href=\"https:\/\/votersoftomorrow.org\/15-youth-vote-groups-endorse-biden-harris\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title> outsourcing<\/a> some of the organizing efforts to 15 leading youth vote and mobilization groups, who are hiring hundreds of organizers and recruiting volunteers. <\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s team has not had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/3000796\/biden-campaign-ups-their-ground-game-fighting-to-cut-into-trumps-margins-in-rural-counties\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>as robust on-the-ground staffing<\/a>, but the campaign said they have paid staffers in every battleground state. The Trump team is pointing to recent polling, as a signal young people are increasingly unhappy with the administration\u2019s policies and are preparing to turn away from Biden this cycle. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cJoe Biden\u2019s policies have created a more expensive, divided, and dangerous country for young Americans to grow up in, and that\u2019s why he\u2019s losing significant ground with this demographic in the polls,\u201d \u00a0said Karoline Leavitt, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ian-sams-former-kamala-aide-and-grillary-clinton-apron-model-lands-new-gig-as-bidens-covid-spox\/\" title=\"Ian Sams, Former Kamala Aide and \u2018Grillary Clinton\u2019 Apron Model, Lands New Gig as Biden\u2019s COVID Spox\">national press secretary<\/a> for the Trump campaign to the <em>Washington Examiner. <\/em>\u201cOn the contrary, President Trump will create a safe, prosperous, and free nation that helps all young people achieve their American Dream.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Whether the significant investment of either campaign will pay off with first-time voters is an open question. Jaiden Liferiedge, a freshman studying computer science, said neither campaign has reached out to him or had much of a presence on campus. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI occasionally see organizers for Kennedy here on campus, but that\u2019s all I\u2019ve seen,\u201d Liferiedge said of third-party candidate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/RFK-jr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Robert F. Kennedy Jr<\/a>. \u201cMaybe it\u2019s too early, but you would think if they want our votes they\u2019d be out here.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In College Park, Maryland, Ben Mason, a freshman in aerospace engineering at the University of Maryland, admits his young age hindered his recollection of Trump&#8217;s first term. &#8220;Being too young and uninformed back then, I couldn&#8217;t really grasp what was happening,&#8221; said the 19-year-old<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2657,"featured_media":2247834,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Clip0004.MXF_.03_48_30_13.Still002-1024x576.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2247833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Clip0004.MXF_.03_48_30_13.Still002-1024x576.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2247833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2247833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2247833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2247834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2247833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2247833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2247833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}