The shift in the politics of young voters isn't quite what it seems

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : Non-White men now view Trump 29 points more favorably, a jump that's more than 20 points bigger than the increase among non-White women.
57% : Partisanship overlaps with views of Trump, obviously, particularly in this era.
49% : What we've looked at so far is views of Trump.
47% : White men under 30 have gotten three points more favorable to Trump than White women in that age range.
47% : The central reason for this is that immigration laws were loosened after the baby boom, allowing more people from Latin America and Asia to come to the United States.
45% : Younger voters as a whole were more supportive of Trump in 2024 than they had been in prior elections -- though since we're tracking age over time, the pool of young voters in the 2016 election was not the same as the one in 2024.
43% : It's also true that Americans under the age of 30 have spent at least one-third of their lives in a political era during which Trump was the standard-bearer for one of the two major political parties.
40% : So let's look at a different metric: how Americans view Trump.
34% : Every news photo of a young White guy in a MAGA hat -- and there were many -- was an evocation of the idea that the party had squandered its long-standing advantage with young people to conspiratorial streamers and friends of Barron Trump.

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