There's one person that we know does concern Donald Trump and certainly undermines him,

and that's Jeffrey Epstein, the specter of Jeffrey Epstein from beyond the grave, at one point

his best friend before they had a falling out. Does his name ever come up when you're talking

to young people? It did. It came up. We did a focus group

this past weekend. Basically, two promises that this young man are remembered, right? One is,

are you going to kind of give me a fighting chance, right, to live my best life? And, you know,

are you going to release the Epstein files? Literally, that is what he said, those two things.

I'm Joanna Coles. This is the Daily Beast podcast. And today we're going to be talking about

young men and how important they were in helping Donald Trump get elected and how they feel about him now,

10 months into his Trump 2.0. Who else to talk about this with? But John Della Volpe. You may

remember he came on to the podcast in the summer shedding light about poll numbers. He is the

director of the Institute of Politics at Harvard,

and he is here brimming with all the latest poll numbers and deep, deep insight into what

young men in particular are feeling about their place in America today. So, no more time to

waste. John Delavolpe. Let's get into it.

So, John, we haven't spoken since the death of Charlie Kirk. What have you been up to?

I've been on the road as much as I possibly can. I mean, on them on campus, you know, one or two

days a week, but to do my job well, Joanna, I need to be out to America, right?

So, I don't know, I've been to Atlanta, St. Louis, Denver, a bunch of other places, listening and talking to people.

And there's been some significant reflections post-Charlie Kirk.

But really, I think what I'm picking up is this strong feeling

that the system is just broken. It's not working. Charlie Kirk was a vehicle for many

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