Is support among younger voters at least as strong for Biden as it was for Clinton in 2016?
Saturday, August 15, 2020
By Allegra Taylor
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Polls have repeatedly shown Joe Biden drawing somewhat more support among younger voters than Hillary Clinton in her 2016 contest.
A June 2020 survey of 18-29 year-olds found 58% expressing support for Joe Biden, compared to 24% for Donald Trump. That is a wider margin than the former Secretary of State achieved in 2016 against Trump, when she won 55% of the youth vote. One pre-election poll in 2016 pegged Clinton support at 46%.
Other polls have found smaller differences in youth support between Biden and Clinton, but no polls have shown significantly lower youth voter support for Biden.
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