Vice President Kamala Harris’s margin among voters under 30 years old is 13 points worse than President Joe Biden’s 2020 margin, CNN analyst Harry Enten found Thursday.
The finding is bad news for Democrats, who are also suffering with several other demographics, including working-class and Jewish voters, two groups that have historically voted Democrat in overwhelming numbers.
Harris’s small lead would be the worst result for a Democrat since John Kerry lost in 2004, according to the Cook Political Report.
“The bottom line is Kamala Harris is, in fact, not doing as well among young voters as you might expect a Democrat to necessarily be doing based upon history,” Enten explained on CNN:
You go back four years ago at this point, look, Joe Biden had a 28-point advantage, a 28-point advantage over Donald Trump. Now, you look when Joe Biden dropped out of the race, he was up by just seven points.
Now, Kamala Harris has improved on Joe Biden’s standing but look at this. She’s only up by 15 points. That is significantly less than Joe Biden was up at this point among the youngest voters in our electorate. It’s only about half the margin that Joe Biden was pulling in.
The Harris campaign hopes the endorsement of pop star Taylor Swift will improve Harris’s performance among young voters.
“Nobody knows whether Swift’s endorsement will sway enough Gen Z or millennials toward Harris to make a big difference,” Axios reported Friday. “But there are signs that she’s one of the few celebrities who could tilt the needle toward the Democrat.”
Wendell Husebo is a political reporter with Breitbart News and a former RNC War Room Analyst. He is the author of Politics of Slave Morality. Follow Wendell on “X” @WendellHusebø or on Truth Social @WendellHusebo.
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