UNDERNEWS: Younger voters less Democratic Party

December 14, 2022

Younger voters less Democratic Party

Young voters showed signs in November's midterms that their enthusiasm for Democrats may be waning, AP reports from its VoteCast survey of the electorate:

Voters under 30 went 53% for Democratic House candidates compared with 41% for Republican candidates.
Support for Dems was down from 2020, when voters 18-29 backed Joe Biden over Donald Trump, 61% to 36%.
In 2018, when Democrats used a midterm surge to retake control of the House, younger voters went 64% for the party vs. 34% for the GOP.

Between the lines: The trend line for younger voters could make it harder for Dems to maintain the coalition of Black people, women, college-educated voters, city dwellers and suburbanites that has buoyed the party since Trump's election.

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