Support for Democrats among young American voters is continuing to plummet to record lows, a new national poll from Harvard University has revealed.
A survey conducted by the Harvard Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics (IOP) found that young Americans are turning away from congressional Democrats in droves.
The poll found that the approval ratings for President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans have mostly stayed consistent since the start of the president’s first administration eight years ago.
However, the 50th Harvard Youth Poll indicates that approval ratings for Democrats in Congress among Americans aged 18-29 have nosedived.
The poll was conducted March 14-25 and released on Wednesday.
According to Harvard’s annual spring survey, the approval rating for congressional Democrats stands at 23%.
The number has plunged from 42% in the spring of 2017 at the start of Trump’s first term.
“In that same period, approval of Congressional Republicans has held steady, inching up slightly from 28% to 29%,” the poll’s release notes.
And the approval rating for Trump, who next week marks 100 days into his second tour of duty in the White House, stands at 31% in the new survey.
The release highlights that Trump’s numbers are “virtually unchanged from the 32% reported in Spring 2017 and the 29% recorded in Fall 2020.”
Harvard’s survey‘s troubling numbers are the latest indication to spell doom for the Democrats.
The confidence rating for Democrat leadership in Congress stood at a record-low 25% in a new Gallup poll.
The poll was conducted April 1-14 and released last week.
That’s nine points below the previous low of 34%, which was recorded in 2023.
Fueling the drop in confidence in the Democrat congressional leadership was a 41-point plunge among Democrats questioned in the Gallup survey.
National polls conducted in February by Quinnipiac University, and last month by CNN and by NBC News, indicated the favorable ratings for the Democratic Party sinking to all-time lows.
The Democratic Party is in the political wilderness after November’s election setbacks.
In November, Republicans won back control of the White House and the Senate and defended their fragile House majority.
Republicans also made gains among black and Hispanic voters as well as younger voters.
All of these demographics are traditionally viewed as the Democrats’ base.
Democrats have become increasingly angry and energized in response to Trump’s aggressive and controversial moves in slashing the federal government and upending long-standing national policies since returning to the White House three months ago.
That anger is directed not only at Trump and Republicans but also at Democrats.
Many in the party’s base feel their leaders in Congress haven’t been effective or vocal enough in pushing back against the president.
According to the Harvard poll, only 15% say the country is headed in the right direction, with just over half (51%) saying the country’s on the wrong track.
And just one in four surveyed said the current state of the country is better now under Trump than it was during former President Joe Biden’s single four-year term in the White House.
Forty-one percent said things were better off under Biden.
14% said they see no difference, and 17% are unsure.
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