It's Friday, April 18, 2025.

I'm Albert Moeller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

Well, just about anyone looking to future election cycles in the United States is asking big questions,

and one of them is what is the direction

of the young male vote? That became so much an issue of concern as you look at the 2024

election, where by many estimations, there was a seismic, very significant shift of the votes of

young men towards Donald Trump and the Republican Party at the expense of the Democrats.

Furthermore, there's something even more fundamental. I wrote an article just weeks ago entitled

Liberal Parents, Conservative Sons. You're looking at a departure from a norm of recent cycles.

In one sense, young men have often been more conservative than young women

on the political spectrum in the modern age. But it is also interesting to note that Democrats

have figured out they can't win without the votes of young men, so they're trying to figure out

how to get them back. Okay. So now we're just a few weeks after the election, practically speaking,

just a few short months since the November 2024 election.

And some Democrats are now getting national attention for trying to figure out how to win back the young male vote.

One of them is Gavin Newsom, the Democratic governor of California.

And of course, a polarizing figure on the left himself.

But we've talked about him in recent days because he's been making headlines interviewing, for example, on his new podcast, Charlie Kirk, the conservative activist.

And in the midst of that, coming out and saying, not just as a throwaway line, but as a point he was trying to make, that he agreed with Charlie Kirk and with

conservatives that say, boys should not play on girls' teams and athletics. He said it's just

fundamentally not right. It's not fair. And he spoke as if he were a convert to this argument.

I pointed out at the time. It's very important that he said it, but we have no idea that he meant it. I'll just openly say, I don't think he did mean it, because he is the governor of California. If he did mean it, he would try to turn it into policy. I don't think he could get it through his own party. I think he knew the line would cost him nothing but get him a lot of headlines. There was no threat that the California General

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