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.

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    11 months ago

    There were lots of other people running.

    Give me one good reason why someone would vote for Biden over everybody else in the 2020 primaries.

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      11 months ago

      Lots of people did vote for someone else in the 2020 primaries. This good variety of candidates that you claim existed only existed in the early rounds. Once Super Tuesday arrived, it was practically Bernie and Biden (everyone else was so far behind in vote percentages that they might as well not even been on the ballots). After Super Tuesday, the field narrowed even further to be exactly Bernie and Biden in the last remaining contests.

      After Biden won South Carolina, and one day before the Super Tuesday primaries, several moderate candidates dropped out of the race and endorsed Biden in what was viewed as a consolidation of the party’s moderate wing.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Democratic_Party_presidential_primaries

      So, why would someone vote for Biden over Bernie in these contests you’re asking? It’s simple; they liked Biden more than Bernie.

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        11 months ago

        It’s simple; they liked Biden more than Bernie.

        Alright. Why did they like Biden more than Bernie?