President Trump’s job approval is 34 points underwater among young men, with 32% approving and 66% disapproving of his performance in office.
A paltry 26% of young men would back a J.D. Vance presidential run in the 2028 general election, with 55% opposing and 17% unsure.
A 61% supermajority of young men say Trump is not fulfilling his campaign promise to put America first, including 25% of young Republican men and 64% of Independents.
Thirty-three percent of young men combined—including 15% of young Republican men—hold Trump (24%) and Republican leaders (9%) as the figures with the greatest responsibility for lowering the country’s temperature around political violence, while just 6% say Democratic leaders hold this responsibility.
Young men are most alarmed by Trump’s $1 trillion cut to health care (66% very concerned), followed by his opposition to fully releasing the Epstein files (63%), and his expansion of immigration raids to target anyone who looks or sounds foreign (60%).
Sixty-five percent of young men say that they are either struggling to pay bills (27%) or are just making enough to pay bills (38%).
Fifty-eight percent of young men believe that Trump has negatively impacted their finances, while just 23% say that he has had a positive impact.
Half of young men blame Trump’s tariffs for higher grocery costs (49%), while a larger share blame private corporations that purchase real estate for high housing costs (65%).
An astonishing 73% of young men believe that American culture has changed for the worse since their parents were their age—20 points higher than the electorate overall.
That’s from Third Way which is hardly a left leaning institution.
I won’t belabor the point that Trump was a known quantity in 2024 and there’s no excuse for why so many people voted for him anyway. You know how I feel about that. But if anyone can be excused it’s the younger folks who have less experience with politics and only knew that things were better when they were younger and they associated that with Trump.
They won’t make that mistake again.