(DailyVantage.com) – CNN polling analyst Harry Enten last week suggested that support for Vice President Kamala Harris was not surging among younger voters and said that polling showed Harris in a weaker position among voters under 35 than Biden was in the 2020 election.
During an appearance on CNN last Wednesday, Enten compared Biden’s support among voters under 35 in the 2020 election to recent polling between Harris and Trump, which he said showed the vice president earning “significantly less” support among younger voters than Biden had in 2020.
Based on CNN exit polls from the last election, Biden had a 21-point advantage over Trump among voters under 35. However, Harris only held a 9-point advantage over Trump in recent polling.
Enten added that while Harris is doing better among young voters compared to Biden’s most recent 2024 polling, she is still far behind where Biden was in the 2020 election.
Enten also discussed Democrat voter enthusiasm since Biden dropped out of the race.
While 39 percent of Democrats said they were more enthusiastic about voting now that Harris was the nominee, 55 percent said they were not. Among voters 18 to 29, 42 percent said they were more enthusiastic while 49 percent said they were not.
He suggested that the idea that Kamala Harris had “unique potential” to boost voter turnout among young people is “just not there.”
According to an Axios/Generation Lab poll released last Thursday, Harris has a 20-point advantage over Trump among voters under the age of 35, 60 percent to 40 percent – vastly better than the previous Axios poll that showed Biden with only a 6-point lead over Trump among the same group, 53 percent to 47 percent.
The Axios poll also showed a boost in favorability for Harris among younger voters compared to President Biden, with 45 percent saying they had either an “extremely” or “somewhat” favorable view of the vice president. Only 33 percent of voters under 35 said the same about President Biden.
Polling has tightened somewhat now that Biden has dropped out. As of July 25, the Real Clear Politics average of polls showed Trump 1.7 points ahead of Kamala Harris nationally, 47.9 percent to 46.2 percent.
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