A scary number for Joe Biden's 2024 chances
The president has a youth vote problem.
In the 2020 election, Joe Biden dominated Donald Trump among young people. He won 60% of the vote among those aged 18-29 — by far his largest margin among any age group.
Young people may not have been the sole reason Biden won but they were, without question, a major pillar of his success.
As a detailed Pew analysis of the 2020 results concluded:
Among those under age 30 who voted in 2020 but not in either of the two previous elections, Biden led 59% to 33%, while Trump won among new or irregular voters ages 30 and older by 55% to 42%. Younger voters also made up an outsize share of these voters: Those under age 30 made up 38% of new or irregular 2020 voters, though they represented just 15% of all 2020 voters.
Which brings me to a new Quinnipiac University national poll — and this number in particular: 25%.
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