The latest polling by the frequent collaborators YouGov and The Economist shows an absolutely huge lead for President Joe Biden among registered voters from the ages of 18 through 29.
The pollsters were specifically asking for registered voters’ intentions in the expected rematch later this year between Biden and former President Donald Trump, who’s sailing to a Republican nomination for the contest after his last remaining serious challenger, Nikki Haley, dropped out.
Those from the aforementioned age range backing Biden reached 54 percent, the largest share of any age group expressing support for the current president. It’s only slightly below the portion from that age range won by Biden in the 2020 presidential election, per exit polling by Edison Research. (That data showed a 60 percent share backing the Democrat.) Trump in the new polling from YouGov was at only 31 percent among those younger voters.
The polling was completed just before President Biden’s recent “State of the Union” address given in front of Congress, which spurred a wave of positive news coverage for the president. Leading up to, during, and after the speech, the president and his team have sought to highlight an extensive range of accomplishments including the infrastructure spending package enacted much earlier in Biden’s tenure that continues fueling projects around the country.
Trump’s focuses amid his ongoing campaign include grievances drawn from his wide-ranging court proceedings and the border… the latter a policy area where Republicans in the Senate recently voted down an ambitious deal negotiated with bipartisan input, effectively capitulating to GOP claims of deficiencies. Trump himself also opposed the proposal. Among the demands from his political corner was the usage instead of executive power, though that approach has its limits. Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas rebuffed the idea of relying on executive power to improve border conditions in a recent interview on CBS, characterizing it as a short-term fix.
