Rep. Summer Lee (D‑PA) expressed concern about young voter’s enthusiasm for President Joe Biden going into the 2024 general election.
On CBS News’s Face the Nation, Lee said she is not seeing as much enthusiasm from young voters about Biden as in 2020 due to Biden’s policies toward Israel. Lee recently visited the University of Pittsburgh in her district to join student protests that are calling for the university to divest from Israel in the wake of the Israel-Hamas war.
“To be honest, you know, we don’t,” Lee said when asked if she sees enthusiasm from students about voting for Biden. “It’s not a topic that always comes up, but it does a lot.”
In 2020, half of the youth population in the United States, composed of those aged 18–29, voted in the last election, which was an 11% increase from the 201 …