Economic concerns and growing disenchantment with both parties is draining support for Trump among Gen Z young men, a key bloc of support during the 2024 election

Economic concerns and growing disenchantment with both parties is draining support for Trump among Gen Z young men, a key bloc of support during the 2024 election

Male Gen Z voters are breaking with Donald Trump and the Republican party at large, recent polls show, less than a year after this same cohort defied convention and made a surprise shift right, helping Trump win the 2024 election.

Taken with wider polling suggesting Democrats will lead in the midterms, the findings on young men spell serious trouble for the Republican Party in 2026.

Younger Gen Z men, those born between 2002 and 2007, may be even more anti-Trump, according to October research from YouGov and the Young Men’s Research Project, a potential sign that their time living through the social upheavals of the Covid pandemic and not being political aware during the first Trump administration may be shaping their experience.

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    6 hours ago

    The last real Democratic Party primary was in 2020.

    The last fair primary was the one before Jimmy Carter…

    08 Obama won an unfair primary, but just because he managed to pull it off doesn’t retroactively make it fair.

    2020 Biden was doing poorly until SC, got his only good performance, and then like a day before super Tuesday everyone except Biden and Bernie dropped, they all started campaigning for Biden. And then the DNC said that was a mandate for Biden and started pushing Bernie to also bow out.

    It might not have been an outright fix, but it was more than a finger on the scale and sure as shit wasn’t fair.

    I have high hopes the next one will show everyone what a legitimately unbiased primary looks like.

    • Krono@lemmy.today
      21·
      5 hours ago

      Yea Bernie was robbed, the DNC worked hard to sabotage his candidacy every step of the way. If Bernie got a fair shot, we would never have to utter the words “President Trump”.

      But what about the Obama 08 primary was rigged?

      I think candidate Obama was a amazing liar- he lied about ending the wars and punishing the war criminals, he lied about immigration reform, he lied about healthcare reform, he lied about closing the torture prison at Guantanamo, etc etc. It’s easy to blame Republican opposition, but Obama gave up on most of these major promises without a fight.

      A lying politician is normal though. What makes it rigged?