Will young voters' initial excitement for Harris get them to the polls?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : Shaikh, who got a degree in psychology from Texas A&M University this year and organizes with a pro-Palestine group on campus, said that as a Muslim American, she couldn't stomach voting for Biden given his strong support of Israel, but as a progressive, she wouldn't vote for Trump.
51% : In the swing states NextGen polled, Harris has drawn support from 68 percent of young "double haters" -- voters who disapproved of both Biden and Trump -- compared with Trump's 6 percent.
45% : In NextGen's latest poll, conducted in August before RFK Jr. dropped out and endorsed Trump, the number of youth voters supporting a third-party presidential candidate had halved, to 10 percent.
42% : "We recognize that there's obviously a tremendous difference between Trump and Kamala on climate, but we need Kamala to go bolder.
41% : But climate action is not a priority for all young voters, and some young conservatives are still staunch supporters of Trump.
36% : According to NextGen's latest poll, 40 percent of voters 18-35 in battleground states are planning to vote for Trump, compared with 57 percent for Harris.Jordyn Landau, a 27-year-old resident of Ames, Iowa, voted for Trump in 2016 and 2020 and plans to vote for him again this year.
35% : In the spring, some polls showed Biden, who won young voters by a more than 20-point margin in 2020, struggling to maintain a lead over Trump with Millennial and Gen Z voters.
33% : Previously, Biden took 29 percent of double haters in those states and Trump took 9 percent.
33% : Meanwhile, Trump, a frequent espouser of climate denial, has promised to gut the Environmental Protection Agency, ramp up domestic oil and gas drilling and repeal the Inflation Reduction Act, the Biden administration's landmark climate law and the biggest investment in slowing global warming in US history.
30% : But the group prioritized defeating the Republican presidential candidate: "Regardless, Trump is dangerous," the post continued.
30% : He voted for Trump in his first election in 2020, but after the January 6 insurrection he felt alienated from the party he'd grown up in.
30% : Either way, he is actively discouraging his friends from voting for Trump.
26% : Trump is a fa[s]cist dictator.
26% : "The Sunrise Movement stated that the debate was a "missed opportunity" for Harris to contrast her record on climate with Trump's.
22% : but we'd rather protest her and try to move her than be protesting Trump who is worse and who we are not as well positioned to move," Greenberg said, the day before the event.
21% : Trump has enlisted Gen Z social media influencers like video game streamer Adin Ross and TikTokker Bryce Hall to try to reach conservative youth online, while the Harris campaign's rapid-response social media accounts have latched onto viral trends like coconut tree memes -- alluding to a Harris comment widely shared online -- and pop music references.
20% : We need to stop Trump.
17% : "Trump is a racist.
12% : Even young people who vehemently oppose Trump weren't enthused by Biden, and were loudly and publicly urging him to step down.
12% : Now she sees voting as a method of "harm-reduction" on things like transgender rights and the Supreme Court and hopes that Harris can be more readily influenced on issues important to her than Trump or Biden.
9% : She does not support Trump, and she's slightly more hopeful about Harris than she was about Biden, but she's still not convinced that Harris will take young voters' grievances seriously.

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