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That's what you get for voting for a death cult, Zoomers. (lemm.ee)

submitted 6 days ago by [email protected] to c/politicalmemes

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[–] gAlienLifeform 19 points 6 days ago (1 children)

That is also true and a real problem, but it would be more accurate to say that more of that 18-29 demographic who turned out to vote voted for Trump than before

We estimate that 42% of young voters (+/- 1%), ages 18-29, cast ballots in the 2024 presidential election, a lower youth turnout than in 2020—when our early estimate put youth turnout above 50%—and approximately on par with the 2016 presidential election.

We also estimate that youth voter turnout in battleground states may have been much higher: 50% on aggregate in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.

Young voters cast 14% of all ballots in the 2024 election, according to the National Election Pool exit poll conducted by Edison Research. While this number may be adjusted in the coming days, and other data sources may show different numbers, this 2024 youth share of the vote was also lower than in 2020 (17%) and 2016 (19%) based on the same data source.

https://circle.tufts.edu/2024-election#overall-youth-turnout-down-from-2020-but-strong-in-battleground-states

I would be interested to see how that 50% number for those battleground states compares to the percentage of 18-29 voters who turned out in those same states in 2020 and 2016, but I think the general story here isn't that zoomers are actually getting more conservative but that the Democratic party did a terrible job getting their young voters to turn out

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Well yeah and the anti-Biden/Harris rhetoric around Palestine was mainly circulating on TikTok among GenZ voters. It was a very strong anti-turnout message being pushed to the likely Democrat GenZ voters.