Young voters overwhelmingly say they would support President Biden over former President Trump in a hypothetical head-to-head match-up if the 2024 presidential election were held today, according t…

Young voters overwhelmingly say they would support President Biden over former President Trump in a hypothetical head-to-head match-up if the 2024 presidential election were held today, according to a poll released Wednesday.

In the Economist/YouGov poll — conducted via web-based interviews Dec. 16-18 — more than half (53 percent) of registered voters under 30 said they would support Biden, and less than a quarter (24 percent) said they would support Trump.

Another 10 percent said they would support another candidate, 4 percent said they were not sure, and 9 percent said they wouldn’t vote.

  • PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works
    417·
    11 months ago

    Elect us and maybe we’ll do something about abortion.

    Democrats are in an abusive relationship - it’s just better than the alternative.

    • go_go_gadget@lemmy.world
      417·
      11 months ago

      There were plenty of better alternatives in the 2020 primaries than Biden. People voted him specifically to fuck over Progressives and Leftists. They’d rather lose to MAGA than leftists.

      • cecinestpasunbot@lemmy.mlEnglish
        101·
        11 months ago

        A lot of people voted for Biden in the primaries because they were being told he had the best chance of beating Trump. Plenty of those people actually favored the policy proposals of other candidates.

        • assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world
          32·
          11 months ago

          This is a messaging problem then. The message that other candidates had a good chance against Trump didn’t resonate as much as the message that Biden had a good chance. We need to figure out why that is if we hope to change that.

          • SCB@lemmy.world
            11·
            11 months ago

            Leftists are not and will never be popular in the US, even if specific causes they support are popular.

            That’s your messaging problem. You need to make your causes seem and feel less extreme.

            Republicans didn’t start with Trump. They inched there.

        • go_go_gadget@lemmy.world
          213·
          11 months ago

          A lot of people voted for Biden in the primaries because they were being told he had the best chance of beating Trump.

          Read into that message a bit more and what you get is: “We voted for Biden in the primaries in order to fuck over progressive and leftists efforts.” Now those same people are expecting our votes in the general? They can get fucked.

          • Techmaster@lemmy.world
            71·
            11 months ago

            So you’re willing to throw away our democracy and freedom, just so you can get revenge on Biden and everyone who voted for him. He barely has any power and can only sign bills that the house republicans are willing to pass.