How Trump's recent actions are affecting his support among young voters
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🗓️ 17 April 2026
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| 0:00.0 | President Trump is on the road this week speaking tonight to young voters at a rally in Phoenix |
| 0:05.4 | held by Turning Point USA. At the top of his speech, the president spoke about the war with Iran. |
| 0:11.2 | This will be a great and brilliant day for the world because Iran has just announced that the Strait of Hormuz is fully open and |
| 0:24.7 | ready for business. Joining us now is White House correspondent Liz Landers. So Liz, the president's |
| 0:30.4 | remarks come at a time when polls show his standing slipping with younger voters. What more did |
| 0:35.5 | he say this evening? Well, he has been talking about a range of |
| 0:38.8 | issues. I would say that he is still talking right now. So I was listening to this speech as I was |
| 0:42.9 | coming on set here. He started talking about Iran at the top, but he needs to focus on domestic |
| 0:48.3 | issues in order to get these younger voters back. There was a Yale youth poll that was conducted |
| 0:53.4 | in March that looked at his disapproval, |
| 0:56.3 | which is going up right now with younger voters. For voters aged 18 to 22, his disapproval stands |
| 1:02.2 | at 68 percent for the age group 23 to 29 years old, 72 percent disapproval, and 30 to 34 |
| 1:10.1 | years old, 75% disapproval. |
| 1:13.5 | This was conducted in March, but they did a similar survey between October and November of last year. |
| 1:20.2 | And his approval between that survey and this one, the most recent one, dropped in every age group under the age of 35. |
| 1:29.1 | So all these young people are becoming less excited about him and less supportive of him as president. |
| 1:35.7 | In particular, the majority of young voters will vote for Democrats as of right now, |
| 1:42.0 | according to that poll in the fall. |
| 1:44.0 | And young women voters |
| 1:45.6 | have in particular moved away from President Trump. He saw, Democrats saw a gain of 17 points |
| 1:53.0 | for young women 18 to 22 years old. And the top issue, according to that Yale youth poll, |
| 1:58.4 | was affordability. And the president meantime, Liz, as you well know, he is keeping up this ongoing dispute |
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