Why is Joe Biden haemorrhaging support from young voters?
The News Agents - USA
Global
4.3 • 719 Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2023
⏱️ 34 minutes
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We're on the ground in California to understand why young voters are turning their backs on Joe Biden - and how this could well consolidate Donald Trump's path back to the White House next year. We also talk to the Editor-in-Chief of the Cook Report, Amy Walter.
And - is Thanksgiving a waste of time? Jon and Emily discuss (well, disagree).
Editor: Gabriel Radus
Social Media Editor: Georgia Foxwell
Video Production: Rory Symon
Newsgathering by Nick Charles Currie in Los Angeles, CA.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents USA podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.2 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:12.9 | I no longer consider myself a Democrat because of the way that Biden has responded to this crisis. |
| 0:20.1 | It's horrendously laughable and I will not be voting for Biden. |
| 0:25.0 | That was Daphne. |
| 0:26.4 | She is a student at the University of Southern California. |
| 0:29.6 | And she is one of a growing number, according to the latest polls, of 18 to 24-year-olds, |
| 0:36.6 | who think of themselves as Democrat, |
| 0:38.5 | but who have been mightily put off voting for Biden because of his stance on the Israel-Gaza situation. |
| 0:45.6 | Daphne also happens to be from Michigan, one of the key swing states at the next presidential election. |
| 0:52.5 | It comes as Joe Biden celebrates, not sure that's the right word, |
| 0:56.6 | his 81st birthday this week. And the polling evidence has been absolutely awful for him. |
| 1:03.5 | And it's not just Israel-Palestine, although that is really important. The questions about his |
| 1:09.2 | age just won't go away. Welcome to the Newsagents USA. |
| 1:18.3 | It's John. It's Emily. And we are in Newsagents HQ-H-Q, that is very, very different with different screens and everything. |
| 1:31.0 | But last night, at the University of Southern California, Nick Charles Curry, who is a student journalist and a friend of the news agents, and at this rate is going to find himself one of the team very quickly, was out with his microphone |
| 1:46.0 | and he was at our request going to interview random people on campus, not his friends, not |
| 1:53.7 | journalist students, but people from all over the place, California, majorly democratic |
| 1:59.7 | in its demographics. |
| 2:01.5 | But what he was trying to work out was whether there has been a shift, |
| 2:06.2 | a shift amongst the young, who might once have felt very strongly in favour of Biden |
| 2:11.5 | and his democratic policies, not least on student loans and all the rest of it, |
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