President Joe Biden has worked to woo young voters with his student loan forgiveness plan, but he is still lagging with the demographic in polls against former President Donald Trump.
In two polls released on Thursday, Biden has smaller leads over Trump with young voters than four years ago — in a group he needs to win convincingly to win another term. The spring 2024 Harvard Youth poll showed Biden leading Trump 45% to 37% with adults aged 18 to 29, significantly behind Biden’s 51%-to-28% lead in 2020 with that base of voters, according to the same pollster at this time in 2020.
In an Emerson College poll, Biden leads Trump among registered voters aged 18 to 29 by 57.9% to 42.1%, which is behind his 60.5%-to-29% lead in the age group with the same pollster in April 2020.
In 2020, Biden got 60% of the vote from those aged 18 to 29, compared to Trump’s 36%, according to a CNN exit poll. John Dell …