Biden’s support among young voters has only decreased since 2020. The president had a much higher lead at this stage during the 2020 election. Sixty percent of likely young voters under 30 supported Biden while only 30% supported Trump.
USA Today Editorial (4-18-2024)
After getting 60% of their vote in 2020, Biden’s in trouble with young adults. In December, the New York Times reported young voters were split in swing states: Biden 47% to Trump 46%. In March, Reuters had Biden up 3 points over Trump with all voters aged 18-29, while Newsweek had him 6 points behind Trump. A Fox News poll now has Trump ahead by 18 points (21, if RFK’s on the ballot). Discount the polls, but don’t discount the voter’s remorse Biden has invited in young America.
Biden’s youth problem was unpacked by the liberals at Brookings: voters under age 29 now care less about social issues and more about economic issues. The economy is the top issue with 62% of the young, and 93% of that cohort describe Biden’s economy as “poor” or “only fair.” 50% say his policies have hurt them personally, 79% say he has the country on the wrong track, and 62% say Trump will manage the economy better – a repudiation of Bidenomics, if ever.
Biden’s management of the economy is simple: (1) read rah-rah data from a teleprompter, (2) ignore average folks’ falling standards of living, and (3) ban one gas-consuming necessity after another. Not only do the young see through the BS, the President’s false claims and confused mumblings are laugh lines on TikTok. Therefore, disapproval of Biden’s handling of the economy is highest (75%) with young voters (source: CNN/SSRS).
Biden talks about falling inflation rates, while young voters talk about falling standards of living, and define “inflation” as needing more money to make ends meet (Fox Business estimates an extra $1,000 per month). Under Biden, average hourly earnings have dropped 2.5%, while prices have increased 18.8% (source: BLS). And all those new jobs in 2023? 83% of them were in government, healthcare, and hospitality (source: Yahoo Finance).
According to April’s TIPP Insights, many Americans worry about making monthly payments: 47% about credit cards, 51% about mortgage or rent, and 58% about utility or medical bills. But voters aged 18-24? They have counterintuitive worries: 63% worry about paying their medical bills (compared to 46% of voters over age 65) and 73% worry about having enough retirement savings (compared to 51% of voters over age 65).
Bloomberg reports that (1) “young voters are more worried about the economy than older adults” and (2) “Trump leads Biden with swing-state voters under age 35.” Duh! – Because everything needed to start out in life has gone up under Biden. Housing rental rates are up 21%, median prices for existing homes are up 25%, and average 30-year mortgage rates are up from 2.7 percent to 7.24 percent. Used car prices are up 34%, new car prices are up 29%, and a gallon of petrol rose from $2.19 to $3.79 (source: USA Today). Groceries cost 21% more (source: Fox Business).
Fact: all those abortion and climate votes, which Democrats bought with on-campus beer and pizza parties in 2020, now have to buy their own pizza and everything else – that all costs 30% more because of the man they elected. Making ends meet is their reality, and Trump (ugh!) is now a real option. Observation: I paid $4.40 for a gallon of petrol Friday at Exxon and did NOT see discounts for Abortion Voters or Climate Voters!
Thinking of “climate voters” and Biden’s re-election, many young voters now realize the Kyoto Accord’s zero CO2 by 2050 isn’t just costly today, it’s earthly impossible. Twenty-seven years after Kyoto was signed, mankind has only electrified 2% of its passenger vehicles. In order to create a big crisis, Biden has described the massive scale of what has to be REPLACED to reach Net Zero in 27 years.
The nations of the world must replace 1.5 billion gas/diesel vehicles, 500 million natural-gas furnaces, 100 million gas/diesel irrigation pumps, 50 million gas/diesel tractors, 120,000 gas/diesel merchant vessels, and 25,000 gas-fueled jetliners. Meanwhile, they must replace 4 terawatts of electricity-generating capacity that’s now dependent on fossil fuels, and convert wholesale the large-scale production of essential materials to zero-carbon (source: Liberal Patriot).
The planet’s economies are still dependent on fossil fuels, which is why Pew Research found 75% of Americans believe Biden’s green transition comes with unexpected problems, and a survey conducted by YouGov in 2023 found only 36% of voters aged 18-44 want a rapid green transition. Bidenomics is why YouGov found this week that most young voters say the country is on the wrong track.
Bidenomics can best be defined as the unintended consequences of spending trillions to keep up with Cuba. A harsh reality is slowly but steadily hitting young voters: they elected an idiot. Exemplified this week by Biden’s reversal of a ban on menthol-flavored cigarettes – which the FDA links to higher rates of cancer in Blacks – because he fears a negative response from Black voters (source: WSJ). Sorry, but I need your vote before I prevent your cancer.
Hell hath no fury like a voter betrayed, and Joe Biden’s made young voters feel like chumps. It will now take a lot more than ballot harvesting to get 81 million votes again.
