NFBW: Gen Z will be there in strong Dem numbers in 2024 seeing what they got done this past week.
Student loan forgiveness had little to do with it.
Anti-Trumpism is about being better educated than the average MAGA pissed off victim voter like
protectionist
“It was anti-Trumpism that drove a Dem Party coalition of women, Gen Z, people of color and independents
who all support abortion rights and other individual freedoms that are under threat from Trumpism
gone mad, to show up.
The Dobbs decision provided the energy that drove a mid-term version of the Biden coalition of 2020 to block the red wave.
That Dem coalition has racial, religious, women, environmentalist, gun control, voter rights and youth and new youth energy to carry forward into many elections ahead. The GOP is deplorable and deflated
Gen Z made its voice heard by showing up in nearly record numbers and voting overwhelmingly for Democrat candidates who support issues they care about. Most Gen Z people are more anti-Trump and anti-Republican than they are pro-Biden and pro-Democrats,” Akhavan said.
All of the experts agreed that polling is more difficult than ever because most people ignore spam calls, emails, texts and front door visits during election season — except for senior voters. But Akhavan also said Gen Z is better educated than prior generations and has experienced the Great Recession, record political polarization, a pandemic, worsening climate change and “racial unrest.”
“The reason we had a red ripple versus a red wave was because women, Gen Z, people of color and independents who support abortion rights, showed up in slightly higher numbers to partially offset the historical trends of the president’s party losing a big number of seats in a midterm," Akhavan said.
Stephen Farnsworth, a political science professor and director at the University of Mary Washington's Center for Leadership and Media Studies, said he thinks Republicans’ focus on economic insecurity may not have overcome Democrats’
concern over the Roe v. Wade overturn and threats to democracy. The
right to abortionmay prove the single most important issue for Gen Z, and may have been overlooked by media coverage predicting a “red wave” using surveys that may not have been reliable.
“I'm not sure a lot of journalists have the training in evaluating survey research to know which polls are junk and which ones are not,” he said.
Farnsworth also thinks that for the 2024 elections, Republicans should notice that many candidates who tightly align with Trump and the “big lie” are not making big wins, especially among young voters.
“The election is already showing that candidates' experience and character matter a great deal," he said. "The Trump backlash is at least as strong as the Trump endorsement.”
Republican strategist John Feehery of EFB Advocacy said “As a group, they (Gen Z) don’t usually participate in polls, so perhaps that is why most pollsters didn’t pick up their voting preferences in their surveys. It’s a real surprise, to say the least.”
Concerns about abortion bans and human rights may have driven record numbers of voters younger than 30 to vote blue in the midterm election.
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