from Newsweek
Young Americans are supporting the Republican Party in greater numbers, a new poll has found, highlighting a large divide among people aged under 30.
According to a new Yale Youth Poll, a survey affiliated with the Yale Institution for Social and Political Studies, voters aged 18 to 21 lean Republican by 11.7 points when asked who they would support in the 2026 Congressional elections, while voters aged 22 to 29 favored Democrats by 6.4 points.
Why It Matters
Young people traditionally vote for Democrats in elections, but a conservative shift among Gen Z voters helped President Donald Trump secure the keys to the White House in November 2024. If this trend is sustained, partisan realignment could hamper the Democrat’s chance of success in future elections and bolster the Republicans instead, reshaping American politics.
What To Know
The Yale Youth pollsters surveyed 4,100 registered voters between April 1 and April 3, including an oversample of 2,024 voters aged 18 to 29. The margin of error was +/- 1.9 percentage points for the full sample and +/- 1.8 percentage points for the youth subsample.
It found that Vice President JD Vance was the most popular figure among Republicans with a net favorability rating of +65 overall and +54 among Republican voters under the age of 30. Over 53 percent of Republicans would support Vance if he stood in the 2028 GOP primary, the poll found.
Among Democrats, 27.5 percent would vote for former Vice President Kamala Harris if the 2028 Democratic primary were held today. She has a +60 favorability rating.
Meanwhile, recent AtlasIntel polling showed Trump’s approval rating among 18– to 29-year-olds had climbed to 52.7 percent in February.
You wonder accordingly if the enthusiasm by Leftists for lowering the voting age to 16 will now diminish. —Eds