Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump falls a distant 36 points behind Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton, edging near an unprecedented unpopularity among young voters, according to a new USA Today/Rock the Vote poll of individuals age 18-34.
When asked presidential preference between the two major-party candidates, Millennial voters preferred Clinton, 56-20.
The recent poll puts Trump even further behind President Barack Obama’s Republican opponents in the 2008 and 2012 elections among millennial voters. The 36-percent gap exceeds Obama’s wide leads in the 18- to 29-year-old population, beating John McCain by 34 percent in 2008 and leading Mitt Romney by 23 percent in 2012, according to exit poll results collected by the Roper Center at Cornell University.
With former Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders out of the race, 72 percent of his supporters plan to switch their vote to Clinton, despite Trump’s attempts to lure the Vermont senator’s supporters. Trump successfully wooed 11 percent of Sanders’ supporters, and another 11 percent say they will not vote in the election.
Clinton’s lead over Trump shrinks slightly when third party candidates are added to presidential poll, 50-18, with 11 percent supporting Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson and another 4 percent supporting the Green Party’s Jill Stein.
A majority of millennial voters say their presidential choice comes down to opposition to the other major-party candidate, with 54 percent of Trump supporters trying to keep Clinton out of the White House and 51 percent of Clinton’s voters attempting to keep Trump away from the executive branch.
Harvard Institute of Politics’ poll of 18 to 29-year-old voters showed Clinton with a similarly large 26-point lead over Trump in mid-July, 54-28.
The survey, conducted online by Ipsos Public Affairs for USA Today/Rock the Vote, polled 1,539 adults age 18-34, with a margin of error of plus or minus 4.6 percent.
Young, old, black, white, brown, red…
It would also appear that this would include Donnie’s spawn, as they have disappeared off the face of the earth (thankfully!)
College educated men and women of all political stripes favor Hillary. Only uneducated white men support Mr. Drumpf. I think it is going to be uglier for Mr. Drumpf than the polls seem to suggest.
During the draft.
In the middle of the Vietnam War.
With protesters in the streets.
Even my 12 year old recognizes Trump to be dangerous idiot…
“Trump successfully wooed 11 percent of Sanders’ supporters, and another 11 percent say they will not vote in the election.”
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That first 11% is just mental.
The second 11% is distressing; the dangers of a personality cult, of false equivalences, of a news media endlessly in pursuit of ‘balance’ and too lazy to do much besides surf a narrative.