Young men are turning their backs to Trump according to Mian Singh of Yale Youth Poll “Trump is underwater”
The president is losing another key area of voters as his policies plunge Americans into the Dark Ages.
Both time and voting percentages, as well as polls numbers, economic growth, and international tensions, are all running out for Trump.
Support for the president among younger voters and Black Americans, groups that helped fuel his 2024 popular vote win, is showing early signs of erosion.
According to Milan Singh of the Yale Youth Poll, the president is “underwater” with young people, a reflection of growing frustration over economic realities that have yet to match campaign promises. “There’s a good bit of evidence that Trump is underwater on certain economic issues and underwater with young people,” said Milan Singh, the founder and director of the Yale Youth Poll. “The question is whether those two things are connected. My guess is that they are.”
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The unemployment rate for Americans aged 16 to 24 has risen to 10.5 percent since Trump’s second inauguration, up from 9 percent, coinciding with a decline in overall participation in the labour force.
Black workers have also seen joblessness increase, partly due to federal workforce reductions and a slowdown in hiring across both public and private sectors. To add insult to injury, wages for these groups have dropped or stagnated, despite overall weekly earnings rising for the workforce as a whole.
These trends are, naturally, shaping voter sentiment. Trump’s approval ratings among young men, Black Americans, and Hispanics, constituencies he managed to capture in 2024, are crashing. DOGE cut Federal Jobs, a large number of which saw many in the black community move into the middle class, and therefore more lenient towards Trump’s election messaging.
But analysts now warn that if the economic frustrations persist, these groups may be less likely to support Republican candidates in the 2026 midterms. “A lot of Black people, men and women alike, moved up into the middle class as a result of federal jobs,” Shermichael Singleton, a Republican strategist and former adviser to Dr. Ben Carson, Trump’s HUD secretary during his first term, told POLITICO. “It’s not a big surprise — because of the elimination of a significant portion of federal jobs — that you would see a pretty big dent as it pertains to Black unemployment.”
“Their overall performance [with] Black men, younger voters will holistically depend upon the overall health of the economy,” Singleton added. “In terms of whether or not we can rely on those groups in November? I hope to God we can. And I’m hopeful that the economy will continue to improve. But I don’t know.”
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