Biden loses ground with young voters and minority voting groups: Poll

President Joe Biden is experiencing a decline in support from key demographics going into the election year, including young voters and voters from the black and Hispanic communities.

A new USA Today/Suffolk University Poll released this week shows former President Donald Trump is leading Biden by 2 percentage points overall. Among Hispanic voters, Trump is polling at 39%, compared to Biden at 34%. Biden holds the lead at 63% among black voters, around 24 points less than he did in 2020 — and 1 out of 5 black voters surveyed said they would support a third-party candidate in November.

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The election in 2020 had the largest voter turnout of the 21st century, and young voters were a key group that helped deliver Biden to the White House. In the last presidential election, the turnout among voters under 35 was 57%, according to the Census Bureau, an increase of about 8 points from the same group in 2016.

However, the president is seeing a drop-off in the age group that typically skews toward Democrats, as Trump holds 37% of the support among voters under 35, compared to Biden’s 33%.

Young voters have been disappointed with Biden’s response to the Israel-Hamas war, with their outrage aimed at the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, recent polling shows.

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Black voters have been underwhelmed by Biden’s outreach in his 2024 campaign so far and take issue with the president’s policies on police reform and police brutality against their community, the Washington Examiner previously reported. Biden held support among 65% of Hispanic voters in 2020, but the president’s handling of the border crisis and immigration and his inability to prove the effectiveness of Bidenomics have hindered him in the polls.

But Biden’s economy has seen a slight boost: The survey shows 29% believe the economy is in recovery, a rise of 8% since the last poll in late October.