Posted on 04/10/2024 10:19:53 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
For Joe Biden, it's got to be maddening.
Day after day, he cooks up another legally questionable student loan forgiveness program, announces it to much fanfare to a fawning media, and all he gets for it is young people moving to vote for President Trump.
According to Politico:
Polls show former President Donald Trump is ascendant with the youngest bloc of the electorate, even leading President Joe Biden in some surveys, as less-engaged young voters spurn Biden. Meanwhile, Biden is stronger with seniors than he was four years ago, even as his personal image is significantly diminished since he was elected last time.
That would be a generational shift: For decades, Democratic presidential candidates have overwhelmingly won young voters, and Republicans have done the same with the other end of the electorate. Poll after poll is showing that’s flipped this year.
The Politico piece attempts to run an equivalency story suggesting that the two voting blocs have switched, but it presents much stronger evidence that young voters are going to Trump.
Just last week, a new NPR/PBS Newshour/Marist College national poll showed Trump 2 points ahead of Biden among Millennial and Gen-Z voters, while Biden led overall among voters 45 years and older, including those in the Silent and Greatest generations.
A Fox News poll last month showed Trump leading Biden among voters under 30 by a whopping 18 points in a head-to-head matchup — and by 21 points with independent and third-party candidates included.
Not every poll shows a perfect age inversion.
Biden is at just 50 percent among voters under 30 in the Wall Street Journal’s national and swing-state polling. While that’s still about 10 points ahead of Trump, it’s a significant decline compared to the 2020 election
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Seems these student loan forgiveness schemes aren't the magic dog biscuit Biden thinks he can throw to these voters and have them instantly love him.
I'll hazard a guess that young voters are more interested in having an actual future than being on the receiving side of an obvious election-year pander that might get overturned by the courts anyway.
Because maybe some of them realize they are just being bought off and it wont work..besides, the majority of those young people are pro hamas and biden even though he’s pro hamas he isn’t pro hamas enough..now if Biden screamed out death to israel, death to america they would support him again
If he tells them there’s loan forgiveness then they do the admin and research- which they hate more than anything in their lives, to find out is a 1 to 5% break on their out of freaking control tuition bill, which may never happen but will take more admin and probing applications, talking to their parents, their abandoning fathers with all their questions and complaints, then he’s an instant creeper.
No sale
Where’s all those lawyers who file suits over Presidential actions that are illegal….. 🧐🧐🧐…. (In a whispering voice) “President Biden’s a Democrat”…. Oh, never mind….
It was a really bad miscalculation on the Dems part.................
as the article points out in mentioning ‘employable majors’ - those with degrees in ‘underwater gender alterations’ and other such non lucrative fields are very likely to be among Biden’s voting base already. The vast majority of other people in the target age group either get zero or negative benefit from this.
The loan forgiveness ain’t what they think it is.
They will be the people paying for the forgiveness.
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Yep and not all young people go to college and take out student loans.
I know people with student debt. They didn’t receive anything.
They put this out every 4 years. and then “oops... the courts stopped it”
Young voters will have to pay Biden’s debt and interest on the debt for the rest of their lives.
There are probably many who wanted to go to college but didn’t want the debt and are now particularly ‘wee weed up’ as a former president would say.
Politico? Pfffft.
Maybe they just learned their lesson last time.
They promised college loan forgiveness, sent the checks.. and then two months after the election, they changed their mind and the students had to fork over that money again…. I remember it.
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