Why Non-white Voters and Young Men Drifted to Trump

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : The massive impact of diverse media consumption is most evident in Shor's analysis of the single most stunning finding about the 2024 results: the massive gender gap among young voters, with Trump doing exceptionally well among young men, as he explained to Ezra Klein: 18-year-old men were 23 percentage points more likely to support Donald Trump than 18-year-old women, which is just completely unprecedented in American politics....
56% : So in office, Trump may be undermining the very trends that made his 2024 comeback possible.
55% : But this time, they voted for Trump by double digits.
52% : Much of Shor's findings confirm the conventional wisdom about how Trump won in 2024, including three main points: (1) Trump made significant gains as compared to his 2020 performance among Black, Latino, Asian American, immigrant and under-30 voters; (2) Trump did better among marginally engaged voters than did Kamala Harris, reversing an ancient assumption that Democrats would benefit from relatively high turnout; and (3) inflation was the overriding issue among persuadable voters, even as Democrats overemphasized the threat to democracy posed by Trump's return to power.
43% : Arguments over how Trump won and Democrats lost in 2024 remain in the background of today's political discourse: Trump fans are focused on exaggerating the size and significance of the GOP victory, and Democrats are mostly settling scores with one another.
34% : This isn't a binary choice as much as a perspective on how to talk about outrages like Musk's assault on the federal government, which negatively affects the benefits and services Americans rely on and is intended to benefit Musk's fellow plutocrats via skewed tax cuts and paralysis of corporate oversight, as Shor told Levitz: Trump and Elon have really spent the first part of their term diving into the biggest weaknesses of the Republican Party -- namely, they're trying to pass tax cuts for billionaires, they're cutting essential services and causing chaos for regular people left and right, while trying to slash social safety net programs.
21% : This finding suggests that in 2024, and right now, Democrats should exploit Trump's broken promises about the economy and other practical concerns instead of focusing on how Trump has broken those promises.

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