Will Gen Z's Pivot to the Republican Party Last?
It’s not only young men who lean conservative. The youngest female voters are also abandoning the Democratic Party.
Missed some key rites of passage.
Photographer: Jay L. Clendenin/Los Angeles Times/Getty ImagesWhat happens when American teenagers get stuck at home, prevented from experiencing the coming-of-age social milestones that most adults took for granted? They become Republicans, apparently.
That is perhaps the most striking nugget in the Yale Youth Poll, a survey conducted April 1 – 3 and released last week that examined the political proclivities of voters ages 18 – 29. The pollsters discovered a crucial difference between voters ages 18 – 21 and those ages 22 – 29: The older subgroup plans to vote for Democrats in the 2026 midterm elections by a margin of 6.4 percentage points, but the younger set prefers Republicans by 11.7 points.