THE KIDS ARE ALL ‘RIGHT’
Joe losing youth to Don
Young voters are fleeing President Biden for former President Donald 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,” said Annie Rogers, a business development analyst now living on the Upper West Side who said she voted for Biden when she was 18, but is now backing Trump. “For most graduates coming out of school this year, it’s impossible to find jobs.
“The first job I was supposed to have out of college was rescinded because the economy and market in the US has been very difficult on a lot of industries,” Rogers said.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 new normal.
Gen Z suffering
Biden allies insist the United States is 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.