Donald Trump is supported by 53% of young people aged 18 to 35 surveyed. Photo: Scott Olson/Getty Images North America
Young Americans strongly prefer Donald Trump to Joe Biden in the 2024 election, a poll has found, amid ongoing concerns about the US president's age.
Trump, 77, leads the 80-year-old Biden by 20 points among voters under age 35 in the latest Washington Post/ABC News poll.
Trump was supported by 53 percent of 18- to 35-year-olds surveyed, while Biden was supported by only 38 percent.
This suggests a further decline in Biden's support among young people. , 43 percent of whom supported him in a Post-ABC poll in February.
The results, while inconsistent with other recent polls, will raise alarm bells in the White House.
Kamala Harris will energize young voters
Young voters backed Biden in double digits in 2020, helping propel him to victory. The Biden campaign is counting on strong youth turnout to replicate that success in 2024.
The poll shows Biden's lead among ethnic minorities has also narrowed to nine percentage points, while Trump's has widened.
Mr Biden sent Kamala Harris, his vice president, on a tour of US college campuses to energize the country's youngest voters.
Her signature speech focused on Republican attacks on abortion rights and the party's fierce opposition to canceling student loan debt.
But the Biden-Harris campaign must contend with ongoing doubts about the president's mental and physical competence, fueled by a number of recent missteps.
Three-quarters of respondents said Biden, who will be 86 at the end of his next term, is too old to serve in office again. Half of respondents said the same about Trump.
These doubts threaten to suppress Democratic turnout next November. According to a Post-ABC poll, 62 percent of Democrats and independents oppose Biden running in 2024.
There is no consensus on who will replace him: Ms. Harris, 58, and a progressive senator Bernie Sanders, 82, both received eight percent support.
A fifth of the group said they preferred «just someone else,» while 16 percent said they would vote for Trump over Biden.
Tough Battle for Biden
The pair appears to be preparing to re-enter their 2020 presidential race next year, with Trump the overwhelming favorite to become the Republican nominee.
In that scenario, the Post-ABC poll showed Trump would defeat Mr. Trump. Biden gained 10 points, contradicting other recent polls that show the 2024 contest effectively a tie.
Mr Trump triumphantly shared the poll results on his Truth Social platform.
According to the Washington Post, this figure may be an «outlier» due to the «unusual composition of the Trump-Biden coalitions» in the poll.
However, polls show that Biden will face an uphill battle for re-election next November as his job approval ratings on the economy and immigration are at record lows.
Biden's job approval total was underwater for most of his first term, but now stands at an astonishing 37 percent.
A Post-ABC poll found that 56 percent of Americans disapprove of Biden's performance, which higher than data from Reuters and poll aggregator FiveThirtyEight.
Economic hardship appears to be a driving factor, with record numbers of Americans saying they are worse off under Biden's presidency.
Voters, meanwhile, appear to remember Trump's one-term presidency more fondly. — rated him 10 points higher than when he left office.
The survey was conducted from September 15 to 20 among 1,006 American adults nationwide.
Biden's case for re-election
Insiders Biden says they remain optimistic despite the numbers. In briefings with donors, the president's team has begun laying out its case for re-election and directly answering questions related to his age.
They believe that carrying just three states — Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania — will ensure Biden's victory But they believe there are multiple paths to re-election, with four other states in the running — Nevada, Arizona, North Carolina and Georgia.
Delaware Senator Chris Coons, a close confidant. Biden, acknowledged that recent opinion polls are “more concerning” than the campaign had expected.
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