Young voters overwhelmingly say they would support President Biden over former President Trump in a hypothetical head-to-head match-up if the 2024 presidential election were held today, according to a poll released Wednesday.

In the Economist/YouGov poll — conducted via web-based interviews Dec. 16-18 — more than half (53 percent) of registered voters under 30 said they would support Biden, and less than a quarter (24 percent) said they would support Trump.

Another 10 percent said they would support another candidate, 4 percent said they were not sure, and 9 percent said they wouldn’t vote.

  • Guy Dudeman
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    -261 year ago

    Right? This poll is literally the same as asking young voters if they would rather have their entire heads cut off or just their eyes and ears gouged out.

    • Xhieron
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      591 year ago

      What on earth are you talking about? Joe Biden tried to give 20k to each of them who went to college. And he would have if the–let me check my notes here: oh, right–Nazis in the other party hadn’t sued to prevent him from giving away money.

      I appreciate that Biden might not be some folks’ first choice, but if you think young people believe another four years of Grampa Joe is just barely more tolerable than the deliberate annihilation of the Republic by fascist traitors, you might need to meet one.

      • @Nudding
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        It doesn’t really matter in the long run, America is run by oil companies, not the people. Joe signed off on more land for drilling than trump did.

        • @[email protected]
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          I believe those were agreements signed by Trump that Biden had to follow through on, no?

          But let’s also be clear, Biden appointed the first Native Secretary of the Interior and signed the Inflation Reduction Act (the most significant climate legislation the US has ever had). Trump appointed Scott Pruitt to lead the EPA.

          • @Nudding
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            One will kill us slightly faster than the other. Great.

      • ComradeSharkfucker
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        -211 year ago

        Brother he’s basically a war criminal the deliberate annihilation of the Republic by fascist dictators is already happening

        • Flying Squid
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          191 year ago

          Unlike that peace-lover Trump who only cares about the welfare of the Palestinian people, right?

            • Flying Squid
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              31 year ago

              Do you have the name of a third person who has a chance of being elected in 2024?

              • ComradeSharkfucker
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                -11 year ago

                ? So I should just love Biden? I don’t understand what you mean. I never said anything about voting did I?

                • Flying Squid
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                  21 year ago

                  This is a thread about young voters and their willingness to vote for Biden.

                  So if you weren’t talking about voting, were you just changing the subject to talk about what you wanted to talk about? I’d say that’s pretty discourteous to the person who posted this.

                  • ComradeSharkfucker
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                    11 year ago

                    I was responding to a comment, that was basically it. I was expressing dislike for a presidential candidate in a thread about presidential candidates

              • ComradeSharkfucker
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                -21 year ago

                Also I came back to say this. How do you not see Biden and Trump being our only feasible options as inherently undemocratic? People only like them in comparison to the other. We should not be forced to choose between two objective evils. Are you so resigned to stagnation that you think continuing to enforce a system that exploits is the best option?

                • Flying Squid
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                  What should or shouldn’t happen is not relevant to reality.

                  The reality is no one is going to change the fact that either a Democrat or a Republican is going to be president in 2024

                  I notice you couldn’t name any other viable options. I think that means you realize that.

                  • ComradeSharkfucker
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                    -11 year ago

                    Yes I realize that. It’s painfully obvious and it’s fucked. However I don’t think this can be changed by voting for the lesser evil who is constantly getting more evil

          • @Ensign_Crab
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            -21 year ago

            Centrists falsely interpret all criticism of Biden as support for Trump. It’s dishonest.

            • @samus12345
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              81 year ago

              And realists know that bashing Biden with no nuance, as these comments are doing, does nothing but benefit Republicans.

              • @Ensign_Crab
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                11 year ago

                Centrists just want everyone to their left and only their left to shut up.

              • @go_go_gadget
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                -11 year ago

                Then what you’re telling us is there is no opportunity for improvement… Clinton was 30 years ago and Biden is to the right of Clinton. Three decades of “incremental progress” has gotten us nowhere.

                • @Ensign_Crab
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                  11 year ago

                  It’s gotten centrists where they want to go.

            • @[email protected]
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              interpret all criticism of Biden as support for Trump

              When you don’t vote, therefore allowing Trump to win the election…then yeah.

              Equating the above with “all criticism” is what’s dishonest. Plenty of people criticize Biden who voted for him once, and they are still voting for him again. But you know that. We might not like him but believe it or not, we dislike fascism even more. Crazy, I know.

    • @[email protected]
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      161 year ago

      He seems to be doing a pretty good job given his poor circumstances where the Republican house and supreme court are both totally useless.

      • @Ensign_Crab
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        01 year ago

        He didn’t have those issues in his first two years. His own party blocked his agenda.

        • @[email protected]
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          21 year ago

          Wel the first two years we had the fuckheads Sinema and Manchin who are basically republicans at this point

          • @Ensign_Crab
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            01 year ago

            Sinema didn’t kill the minimum wage increase by herself. She was one of 8 democrats to vote against workers.

            Manchin is the perfect centrist Democrat.

    • prole
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      31 year ago

      Maybe pay attention to what’s actually happening rather than just repeating what other people say about him.

      Biden is continuing to seek (and find) pathways to forgiving student loan debt, despite the Supreme Court ruling against his program. Millions of people have had their loans forgiven since that decision, and it seems more are getting it every day.

      Anyone who thinks he’s senile or incoherent should listen to the interview he did on Conan O’Brien’s podcast that was released the other day. I was surprised that it went so well, and Biden was far more lucid than I’ve ever seen Trump.

      • @PopOfAfrica
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        31 year ago

        I don’t think he’s senile, I just think he’s out of touch. It’s hard to be in touch as an 80-some year old man.

    • z3rOR0ne
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      -311 year ago

      This…just absolutely this. I was going to post something along the lines of it being a choice between eating shit or being flayed alive, but this is just better. Kudos.