By Nathan Bieneman >> The Trump campaign has aggressively pursued a strategy of podcast appearances in the last weeks leading up to the Nov. 5 election in an effort to appeal to young men ages 18 to 24, a voting bloc that consistently has the lowest rate of voter turnout. According to the Center for
By Jackie Spinner >> In 1988 I was a freshman in college, and the country had just elected George H.W. Bush president. More than half of young voters (53%), ages 18 to 29, voted for Bush, who beat former Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis. Still, they represented just 20% of the total voter turnout. Four years
By Noah Beaumont >> Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are making their last gambits in swing states like Michigan where youth voter registration is high. As in other battleground states, the election here could come down to young voter turnout. The presidential race is in a statistical tie heading into the
By Emmy Berger >> In just over 48 hours in early October, the University of North Carolina at Wilmington Young Democrats put together a canvassing event to register new voters. It was just days ahead of the Oct. 11 voter registration deadline, and there was an urgency to their actions. As in other swing states,
By Allie Miller >> For Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald J. Trump, there is no clear path to victory without a win in Pennsylvania, and the state’s young voters could help decide the race. Among the swing state’s young voters is 20-year-old Temple University junior Cecilia Schleinitz, a political science and economics
