Young voters are fleeing President Biden for former President Trump in droves — which experts and the core demographic bloc chalked up to inflation, the dismal job market and Israel.
Biden’s youth vote collapse was on display in a New York Times-Sienna survey from last week. In response to the question: “If you had to decide between the two today, would you lean more toward [Trump or Biden]” — 46% of voters aged 18-29 said Trump, while just 43% chose Biden.
A CNN poll published last month showed Biden losing voters aged 18-34 to Trump by an eye-popping 11 points.
The numbers are a shocking reversal for the president — in 2020 Biden won the nation’s youngest voters by a commanding 24 points.
“For young people it’s really the job market. For most graduates coming out of school this year, it’s impossible to find jobs,” said Annie Rogers, a business development analyst now living on the Upper West Side said she voted for Biden when she was 18, but is now backing Trump.
“The first job I was supposed to have out of college was rescinded because the economy and market in the U.S. has been very difficult on a lot of industries,” Rogers said. “There hasn’t really been any progress to make that change, and that’s a big reason why young people are interested in voting for Trump.”
Rogers attributed her 2020 vote to being surrounded by “liberals” at Cornell — and frustrations over losing her college experience to coronavirus lockdowns.
During the Biden presidency, monthly inflation approached 10%.
Though it has since cooled, high prices have lingered for basic staples including gas and food.
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned in February that high prices could be the norm for the foreseeable future.
Biden allies are quick to insist the United States in not in a recession, though more than half of Americans believe it is — and blame Biden, according to a Harris-Guardian poll released Wednesday.
“It’s a good economy for someone like me, who is a net saver,” said James Carville, 79, a veteran Democratic strategist. “But if you‘re a net borrower, say 26 or 27, given interest rates and insurance rates you don’t have much hope of buying a house.”
“And these schools are $75,000 a year in tuition — who the f—k can send someone to college anymore,” Carville added.
Biden has also taken heat over his positioning on Israel’s war against Hamas terrorists.
Biden coasted to victory in the 2024 Democratic primaries, but his campaign was dogged by a protest vote from Hamas-supporting American Muslims and college students, organized by deep-pocketed left wing extremist groups.
In Michigan, more than 100,000 voters declared themselves “uncommitted” instead of voting for Biden, many of them in the college town of Ann Arbor, home to the University of Michigan.
“He is losing young voters because of Palestine 100%,” said Cameron Kasky, 23 — a Parkland High School shooting survivor, now working on Broadway as a producer.
He said he would still vote for Biden in 2024 — albeit reluctantly.
“I am not breaking my leg to run to the polls, I am doing it with my head down.”
