Hello everyone and welcome to the focus group podcast I'm Sarah

Longwell publisher of the Bullwork and this week we're covering one of the trickier

demographics this election cycle the youths the youths as Joe Pessie would call

them young folks who are voting in their very first presidential election, and they are adorable.

This is a tough demographic to cover, but I want to unravel some of the common threads tying together young conservatives and young progressives that might explain why this demographic is different from their predecessors and why some, especially Gen Z men, could be more open to Trump than we might expect.

My guest today is one of my favorite youth correspondence, Peter Hamby, co-founder of

Puck News and host of Snapchat's. Good luck America. Peter, thanks for of talking about the youths. I know. I think last time actually that we did this we spent the first 15 minutes just talking about like 90s trivia and about how old we are which I will say

listing when I do the young and this is a very young demo that we did because they are all first time voters

They're like you kids get off my lawn instinct in me like really does come out when they just like say things that are so

patently untrue or they're being unnecessarily bleak about things. I want to be

like you kids shape up shape up. how did you find our kids this time around I mean

obviously we're going to get into this but last time we talked on this topic

Biden was the nominee things things have obviously shifted.

Gaza was a heated issue, it still is I guess, not in polls necessarily, but it showed up a little

in the focus groups among the young progressives.

So there's one sort of table setter thing

that I think is interesting is we're recording this right

after the new Harvard Youth Poll came out,

which I think is the gold standard of polls when it comes to 1829-year-olds.

Harvard Institute of Politics, John Dela Volpe, the pollster, runs it, comes out twice a year.

Some polling, some of its noise, some of its cross-tab diving, but a lot of polling has shown

this sort of GenZ gender gap opening up. Washington Post ABC poll from I think two

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