As the 2024 presidential election approaches, a crisis in masculinity has taken center stage as an organizing issue for the Republican Party and broader right-wing movement. A new and powerful rhetoric imbued with a sense of loss, fear, and anger has transformed gender politics.
The Harvard Public Opinion Project’s Spring 2024 Youth Poll provides a key glimpse into what role immigration and the border will actually play in terms of shaping the outcome of November’s presidential election.
This year, HPOP conducted its first round of polling and sampling between late February and early March, receiving responses from a random sample of 2,010 young Americans on a wide range of issues. Now, with the 2024 presidential election more than underway, their results come at a vital time for public discourse.
According to the 47th Harvard Youth Poll, about as many young Americans plan on voting in the 2024 presidential election as in 2020. However, from disapproval of America’s foreign policies to declining institutional trust, young voters are more pessimistic than ever.
Given the current geopolitical and national significance of the Israel-Hamas war, understanding the perspectives of young Americans — a group that notably leans pro-Palestine — is crucial, especially given the outsized influence this demographic has exerted in shaping public narratives about the war on college campuses as well as across social media.
Three years out from Biden’s inaugural promises of unity, it seems that partisan fractures are far from healed — and that his own party is less than convinced by his performance.
