Posted on 04/08/2024 8:45:51 AM PDT by Red Badger
President Joe Biden has made student loan forgiveness a top priority after young voters elected him by large margins in 2020. Ahead of another matchup with former President Donald Trump, the voting bloc might just abandon him, anyway.
Despite Biden’s continued efforts to cancel massive amounts of student loans for millions of Americans, along with various other left-wing policy achievements, polling indicates his lead among young voters has dropped significantly since last cycle. The loss in support is partially attributable to Biden’s support of Israel following the Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attack, as young individuals largely express support for Palestinians in Gaza, several Democratic pollsters and strategists told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
“He’s doing all the right things that you would think that young voters would flock to, but unfortunately, they haven’t been able to put that message out there in the community,” Adolph Mongo, a Democratic strategist based in Michigan, told the DCNF. “Well, you’ve done eight things, but this ninth thing is unforgiven. And you put your arm around this warmonger in Israel, and then, you know, you can’t unwrap yourself from him.”
Biden has already forgiven billions of dollars worth of student loans for more than 3.6 million Americans, according to the White House.
The Supreme Court struck down Biden’s program to grant student loan forgiveness to roughly 40 million Americans using executive power in June 2023. Since then, the president has explored several other avenues to achieve his policy goal and announced on Feb. 21 that his administration would be canceling $1.2 billion of student debt for thousands of individuals.
Still, polling indicates Biden is on track to have much less support from youth voters in November who backed him by large margins in 2020.
Trump was one point ahead of Biden with registered voters under 45 in an NPR/PBS/Marist survey published on Wednesday. An Emerson College poll of registered voters released on Thursday found Biden leading Trump among those aged 18 to 29 by only ten points.
Last cycle, Biden beat Trump among 18-to-29-year-olds by 24 points, as well as by six points with those aged 30 to 44, according to Edison Research.
A Democratic pollster and redistricting consultant focused on working-class racial minorities, who was granted anonymity to speak freely about the threat Biden faces in 2024, told the DCNF that he’s most concerned about wealthy college students and young voters flocking from the president.
“Really all of Biden’s term, but these last seven [to] eight months, watching how Biden went to war with his own party, went to war with his own donor class, Biden, who went to war with Republicans, fought at the Supreme Court and lost, and still used bureaucratic trickery to cancel a tremendous amount of student debt for a tremendous amount of people. Right? Massive, massive policy giveaway to a group of people really struggling,” said the pollster. “Watching all these people threaten to abstain over disagreements with Gaza and Israel support has really forced me to question a lot of what I thought about the politics of delivery.”
A New York Times survey released in mid-December found Trump leading Biden by six points among registered voters aged 18 to 29 — a group that overwhelmingly disapproved of Biden’s handling of the war in Gaza at 72%. The voting bloc was also far more critical of Israel’s actions in Gaza than older voters were.
“These people can actually tank an election, and they have no problems with it because their lives will not be affected,” the Democratic pollster added.
Celinda Lake, a Democratic pollster for Biden’s 2020 campaign, is concerned that young individuals will either not vote or will support a third-party candidate rather than casting a ballot for Trump.
“I think abortion will help bring back some of the younger women, in particular; I think the threat to democracy will help bring back some of the younger men; I think being more aware of what’s being done on student loans and on renewable energy and clean energy will help,” Lake told the DCNF. “But I don’t think we’re going to have the kind of support among young people that we had in 2020, and so that means we got to make up that vote someplace else.”
A coalition of left-wing groups that seek to turn out young voters penned a letter to Biden warning of such electoral repercussions due to his stance on the war in Gaza, NBC News reported on Nov. 7. The organizations included March for Our Lives, United We Dream, Gen Z for Change and the Sunrise Movement.
“We are experts in youth voting behavior who have worked tirelessly across the years to generate Generation Z and Millennial enthusiasm for civic action under a variety of circumstances,” the group wrote. “We write to you to issue a very stark and unmistakable warning: you and your Administration’s stance on Gaza risks millions of young voters staying home or voting third party next year.”
Biden has faced various protest votes over his handling of the war in states like Michigan, Minnesota, and Washington. Most recently, pro-Palestinian advocates encouraged Democratic primary voters to support the “unrestricted” option in the battleground state of Wisconsin on Tuesday, which received over 48,000 ballots.
“We’re seeing in Michigan and Minnesota that this voting uninstructed or uncommitted has been working, and opinions in D.C. have been somewhat changing,” Jamilah Arabiyat, president of Students for Justice in Palestine at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, told NBC News ahead of the primary.
Polling in battleground states like Wisconsin, Georgia, Michigan, North Carolina, Arizona, and Nevada also suggests that Biden’s numbers among young people are lagging.
Scott Jennings, a Republican strategist and veteran of numerous campaigns, told the DCNF that he also believes the president’s age and the economy are reasons why young voters are fleeing.
“Biden is super old, and shit’s expensive. And like, you know, these are young, very young people, looking at Joe Biden thinking, ‘I have nothing in common with this person, whatsoever.’ And also, they’re living the same life that the rest of us are living every time they walk into a grocery store or go out to a restaurant,” said Jennings. “It’s extraordinarily close, and so if 10,000 20-year-olds sat out the race in Wisconsin or Georgia or Nevada or anywhere else, I mean you can see what a big problem this is for him.”
Biden’s campaign did not respond to the DCNF’s request for comment.
"An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought."The corollary...
"An honest voter is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought."
The MAT?? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!! He is BRIBING THEM EWITH OUR MONEY!!! No skin off of his nose!!
Right on cue
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President Joe Biden will announce on Monday his plans to cancel student debt for more than 30 million Americans by this fall, per Reuters
Young people who have all ready received student loan debt relief are rejecting Biden’s student loan relief policies for those that still have not had their loans paid for because they don’t want to pay for other people’s student loans . Why should they have to pay for other peoples loans
Biden went to the mat for young voters on student loans that will destroy their future
No. HE's doing all the things YOU would think that young voters would flock to. But leftist/democrat mentality is not grounded in reality.
Young people are faced with the hard realities of living including paying more for housing, gas, food, utilities, and having the job market absolutely tank for them.
Biden defied the USSC and made student loan forgiveness a top priority among the voting bloc that elected him by large margins in 2020, now they might just abandon him, anyway over the genocide issue in Israel. Abortion will help bring back some of the younger women.
As for abortion, President Trump got it right......
<><>The USSC itself ruled via Dobbs
<><>the Constitution doesn’t give rights to the federal govt to intervene in the decision;
<><>that’s already been left to the states.
The “young voters” that he went to the mat for are generally a bunch of spoiled young adults that live by the “what have you done for me lately” and “Why wouldn’t they” creed. In case you forgot, we OWE them something for blessing us with their lazy attitudes.
The dirty little secret is that most of the students whose loans are being forgiven, or being promised to be forgiven, never intended to pay the loans back in the first place, so Biden isn’t giving them anything they didn’t think they already had.
Jeff Dunham (sp?) on biden as president
https://truthsocial.com/@LakemonsterCL/posts/112219504300961171
No problemo.
There will be plenty of student mail-in ballots to harvest/traffic.
A lot of these “kids” with student loans got married, had kids, bought a house and starting being a conservative.
While mostly true, “they” now believe they have more disposable income and that there may be more areas of debt forgiveness in the future... i.e., Credit Cards @ 18-21%, child care credits, electric stove credits, etc...
Beat me to it.
Biden did NOT “go to the mat”
He proposed an illegal and impractical scheme, which was defeated in court, and which the vast majority of Americans also rejected on principle
But he did it anyway..................
“Biden went to the mat for young voters on student loans. Now they’re abandoning him”
Huh? Went to the mat? My goodness, propaganda to the max. He’s simply using OUR money (not his) to persuade people to vote for him-—with our money! What a freaking lying POS article.
Loan forgiveness is great. if can’t afford an apartment, food, car, and a night out a week and now live in the parent’s house cause you can’t get a paying job even at 20 bucks because the migrants are taking the jobs should you vote for him?
Wow, that is some run-on sentence. 😂
Poor guy. I can understand his confusion. “What do you mean the bribery didn’t work? It always works on me!”
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