Per a CNN exit poll, #Trump leads #Biden among young voters.
Turnout is going to determine this election in the #USA. Especially if you live in #Pennsylvania, #Michigan, or #Wisconsin.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/29/politics/biden-young-voters-what-matters/index.html
@MHS_Jenkins it's not an exit poll but a regular poll. That is, a poll of the 5% most gullible Americans who answer phone calls from unknown numbers to chat with scammers and pollsters. Most of THOSE young people support Trump. Are willing to vote away their right to vote, their right to an abortion, to medical care, to be considered a full person.
@walterbays With respect: Opinion pieces like this are part of the reason why so many young voters don't vote blue. Approaching their concerns a bit differently and acknowledging that Gaza is a legit issue would go a long way.
No one is owed the youth vote--or any other vote. That attitude is destructive.
@MHS_Jenkins All true. Yet there's no effective way for a US president to deal with the leaders in a conflict, both sides of which are hell bent on genocide and have no regard even for their own people's suffering.
So even if the youth protestors' contention is true that Biden is biased towards Israel, their answer is the man who vows another tougher Muslim ban, internment camps, deporting legal residents back to their ""shithole" countries.
@MHS_Jenkins Short of sending CIA assassins to eliminate Netanyahu I can't see how Biden could have handled the war better. And decades of experience with that tactic in Latin America illustrate how such a policy is ill advised and apt to backfire.
He went as far as to call for new elections in Israel, unprecedented and provoking outrage there. But as long as Netanyahu and Hamas leaders are in power there can be no peace. War is all that keeps them in power, which is all that matters to them
@walterbays That's not really the reality of the situation--we as a nation have had the option of taking a moral stand and ending our support for Israel's apartheid regime for the entirety of this current conflict.
What you're fundamentally doing is asking young voters to support the same kind of human rights atrocities you demanded they decry during the Bush/Trump years. Morality isn't a political switch we flip at will.