Young voters overwhelmingly say they would support President Biden over former President Trump in a hypothetical head-to-head match-up if the 2024 presidential election were held today, according to a poll released Wednesday.

In the Economist/YouGov poll — conducted via web-based interviews Dec. 16-18 — more than half (53 percent) of registered voters under 30 said they would support Biden, and less than a quarter (24 percent) said they would support Trump.

Another 10 percent said they would support another candidate, 4 percent said they were not sure, and 9 percent said they wouldn’t vote.

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    11 months ago

    Right? This poll is literally the same as asking young voters if they would rather have their entire heads cut off or just their eyes and ears gouged out.

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      11 months ago

      He seems to be doing a pretty good job given his poor circumstances where the Republican house and supreme court are both totally useless.

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        11 months ago

        He didn’t have those issues in his first two years. His own party blocked his agenda.

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          11 months ago

          Wel the first two years we had the fuckheads Sinema and Manchin who are basically republicans at this point

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            11 months ago

            Sinema didn’t kill the minimum wage increase by herself. She was one of 8 democrats to vote against workers.

            Manchin is the perfect centrist Democrat.

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      11 months ago

      Maybe pay attention to what’s actually happening rather than just repeating what other people say about him.

      Biden is continuing to seek (and find) pathways to forgiving student loan debt, despite the Supreme Court ruling against his program. Millions of people have had their loans forgiven since that decision, and it seems more are getting it every day.

      Anyone who thinks he’s senile or incoherent should listen to the interview he did on Conan O’Brien’s podcast that was released the other day. I was surprised that it went so well, and Biden was far more lucid than I’ve ever seen Trump.

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        I don’t think he’s senile, I just think he’s out of touch. It’s hard to be in touch as an 80-some year old man.

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      What on earth are you talking about? Joe Biden tried to give 20k to each of them who went to college. And he would have if the–let me check my notes here: oh, right–Nazis in the other party hadn’t sued to prevent him from giving away money.

      I appreciate that Biden might not be some folks’ first choice, but if you think young people believe another four years of Grampa Joe is just barely more tolerable than the deliberate annihilation of the Republic by fascist traitors, you might need to meet one.

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        Brother he’s basically a war criminal the deliberate annihilation of the Republic by fascist dictators is already happening

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        11 months ago

        It doesn’t really matter in the long run, America is run by oil companies, not the people. Joe signed off on more land for drilling than trump did.

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          I believe those were agreements signed by Trump that Biden had to follow through on, no?

          But let’s also be clear, Biden appointed the first Native Secretary of the Interior and signed the Inflation Reduction Act (the most significant climate legislation the US has ever had). Trump appointed Scott Pruitt to lead the EPA.

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      11 months ago

      This…just absolutely this. I was going to post something along the lines of it being a choice between eating shit or being flayed alive, but this is just better. Kudos.