The first millennial to run for the Republican presidential nomination wants to keep young Democratic-leaning voters away from the polls.
Using 2018 exit polls, a reduction of the number of voters under 25 by half would have shifted the national House margin by 1 point to the Republicans. Eliminating it entirely would have shifted the vote 2.1 points to the right. The effect on 2020 would have been larger. Lose half of those under 25 and the margin shifts 1.4 points to the right. Eliminate all of them and the shift is 3 points.
, 26 percent of under-30 voters participated in the midterm elections compared to 65 percent of seniors. Their gradual entry into the electorate as actual voters should give Republicans a good chance to offset and even reverse their pro-Democratic voting tendencies . But it’s obviously appealing to MAGA folk to be told that this preference for the party of the radical left is a sign of immaturity that makes narrowing, rather than widening, young voters’ path to the ballot box a good idea.
It’s clearly ironic that it’s the 37-year-old Ramaswamy, the first millennial to run for the GOP presidential nomination, who is throwing this toxic idea out there onto the campaign trail. He is sometimes referred to as a sort of Republican
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