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Posted on 11/15/2026 12:22:59 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
Barely a week after the midterm elections, Democrats are debating how to turn newfound support among young men into a lasting coalition, while Republicans are trying to understand why the group abandoned them so decisively.
An estimated 59% of men ages 18 to 29 voted for Democratic US House of Representatives candidates, compared with 37% for Republicans, according to Tufts University's Center for Information & Research on Civic Learning and Engagement. That marked a sharp reversal from 2024, when AP VoteCast found young men backing President Donald Trump over Democratic nominee Kamala Harris by 14 points, 56% to 42%.
That rapid shift has made young men one of the most influential and unpredictable voting blocs in American politics, with both parties viewing them as critical to winning the White House in 2028.
Democratic Party operatives are wasting no time looking for ways to sustain their gains. At a conference on the party's future in Denver last week, one session examined strategy for winning over younger voters, under the title: "What we are still getting wrong about Gen Z."
Republicans have yet to conduct a formal postmortem, but party strategists and activists are already calling for an end to the unpopular war in Iran and measures to bring down the cost of living, according to interviews with five party officials and strategists.
"No party owns them," said John Della Volpe, director of polling at Harvard Kennedy School's Institute of Politics, arguing Democrats could keep some, if not all, of their gains if they deliver tangible policy results. "It will clearly swing."
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Young men supported Trump in 2024. They almost immediately soured on him when he started dragging his feet on the Epstein files upon getting into office. The Iran War killed their support.
Millennial and Gen Z males aren’t going along with more Middle Eastern wars no matter what anyone says.
I wonder what percentage of young men voted at all.
It was mostly geezers when I went to the polling place.
The more the talking heads, compliant media & the leftist political/RINO class try and sell this as a legitamate election and pretend they can use the results to judge the public’s attitudes the further I withdrw from their content.
They are all corrupt and endeavoring to destroy America as a democratic republic. Good vs evil has never been so real in my everyday life.
Pence sticking his head up after the GOP tried to repudiate their own president just told me how deep the corruption runs.
Let me guess : they want more 3rd world immigration
Nobody gives a crap about the Epstein files. Get rid of the H1B visas and DEI garbage. Sue companies that discriminate against men, particularly white men. Which is about 90%.
Total bs media narrative. You’d have to be braindead to think Trump dragged his feet on Epstein after he blew the whistle on Epstein years ago. The left tried to weaponize Epstein and it was an epic fail.
Young men want to believe the American Dream is possible.
Democrats offer this: Socialism. Everything is free. You don’t even have to work. We will just give you The Good Life.
Republicans offer this: Work hard you lazy bum. It was much tougher in my day. Look at me! I’m retired with a big fat stock portfolio! You’d have that too is you weren’t a lazy, stupid bum who spends too much on coffee!
So far, the Democrat strategy seems more successful.
You sound like an election-denier.
You are only allowed to be an election-denier when the Democrats lose.
Agreed. Pence is the poster child for duplicity and perfidy.
no one with half a brain gave to craps about the Epstein files except far left morons.
What are you talking about? Trump utterly blundered the Epstein file release. It was his first major self inflected wound.
Indeed, young white men, many of whom were first-time voters, were rallied to the polls by Charlie Kirk on college campuses, by Joe Rogan, by Theo Von and other podcasters they listened to, and by Elon Musk.
Mostly by President Trump himself. They thought Trump was going to speak for them.
And they were treated to this instead:
self inflicted
Its not just that. You have people like Salazar wanting to open the floodgates re: immigration.
And Republicans are generally all about H1-bs. I guarantee you that's not lost on Gen Z males trying to get started in the workplace. They've probably seen an older family member or two get laid off by some company, only to have that company turn around and hire pajeets or outsource the work.
Trump has been trying to remedy that, but its a slog, probably going to take years to fix. That doesn't help those looking for jobs now.
They can’t. The Femocrats are so heavily geared toward single women, they can’t possibly appeal to young men. They are Republicans to win back by focusing on policies that generate good paying jobs for men (ie manufacturing, construction, etc), securing the border and booting out illegals and clamping down hard on H1bs, and on reducing house prices.
I understand what the demographics on here look like but with the average first time home buyer now 40 years old....with the average home buyer being 59 years old, this is a HUGE issue to younger voters - young men in particular. It makes it a lot tougher to get a wife and start a family if you can’t buy a house.
Yep, thinking young men cared about Epstein files is ridiculous. They care about the economy and the price of gasoline.
Here’s an idea: do what you say.
“Trump has been trying to remedy that” by trying to cram Vivek down the throats of Ohio voters.
Lol.
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