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A higher percentage of voters aged 18-29 supported Harris than any other age group, but I guess don't let the facts get in the way of yelling at those damn kids like every other generation has done since forever
More of that 18-24 demographic voted for Trump than before.
https://circle.tufts.edu/2024-election#the-youth-electorate-was-more-republican-and-conservative-in-2024
That is also true and a real problem, but it would be more accurate to say that more of that 18-29 demographic who turned out to vote voted for Trump than before
https://circle.tufts.edu/2024-election#overall-youth-turnout-down-from-2020-but-strong-in-battleground-states
I would be interested to see how that 50% number for those battleground states compares to the percentage of 18-29 voters who turned out in those same states in 2020 and 2016, but I think the general story here isn't that zoomers are actually getting more conservative but that the Democratic party did a terrible job getting their young voters to turn out
Well yeah and the anti-Biden/Harris rhetoric around Palestine was mainly circulating on TikTok among GenZ voters. It was a very strong anti-turnout message being pushed to the likely Democrat GenZ voters.