President Biden is struggling with younger voters in his rematch against former President Trump. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon | Curtis Means/DailyMail.com via AP, Pool)
One reason Biden's locked in a close contest with Trump is a weakening of support for the president among younger voters, whom he won by more than 20 percentage points four years ago, according to the Fox News Voter Analysis and other networks exit polls.
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Fast-forward nearly four years and the survey indicates Biden edging Trump by only four points among voters under 45 and just six points among those aged 18-29.
"They don’t see a lot of connection to him," Marist College Institute for Public Opinion director Lee Miringoff told Fox News as he pointed to younger voters. "They’re worried about the cost of living, which isn’t reserved just for them, but clearly, as they envision moving into adulthood, cost of living, housing costs, how to get into that next step seems to be an obstacle.… They’re seeing the economy as a lot of other voters do – laying it on Biden’s doorstep at the moment."
Former President Trump speaks during a campaign event in Wildwood, New Jersey, on May 11, 2024. (Hannah Beier/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
The new survey by Marist for NPR and PBS NewsHour indicates that less than a quarter of younger voters approve of the job Biden's doing as president. And while more than six in 10 hold an unfavorable opinion of the president, Trump has an above water 49%-42% favorable/unfavorable rating.
But in an opening for Biden, only 54% of Generation Z and millennials questioned in the survey said they've definitely made up their minds regarding whom they'll vote for in the presidential election.
The Marist Poll for NPR and PBS NewsHour was conducted May 21-23, with 1,122 registered voters nationwide. The survey's overall sampling error is plus or minus 3.7 percentage points.
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