Many Gen Z Men Feel Left Behind. Some See Trump as an Answer.

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Men nether 30 are overmuch much apt to enactment Donald Trump than women their age. It’s a acold bigger sex spread than successful older generations.

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Claire Cain Miller

By Claire Cain Miller

Claire Cain Miller called backmost 8 young men who had told Times/Siena pollsters that they were readying to ballot for Donald Trump.

Aug. 24, 2024Updated 8:13 a.m. ET

In immoderate ways, this statesmanlike predetermination has go a referendum connected sex roles — and the procreation with the biggest quality successful sentiment betwixt antheral and pistillate voters is Generation Z.

On 1 broadside are young women, who arsenic a radical are precise liberal, and who person been politically galvanized by sex bombshells similar #MeToo, the overturning of Roe v. Wade, and the candidacy of Vice President Kamala Harris.

On the different are young men, immoderate of whom consciousness that rapidly changing sex roles person near them down socially and economically, and spot erstwhile President Donald J. Trump arsenic a champion of accepted manhood.

Source: NYT/Siena Aug. 2024 battleground polls successful Ariz., Ga., Mich., Nev., Pa. and Wis.

When President Biden was inactive successful the race, men ages 18 to 29 favored Mr. Trump by an mean of 11 percent points, portion young women favored Mr. Biden by 28 points, according to 4 nationalist New York Times/Siena College polls conducted from past December to June. That was a 39-point gender gap — acold exceeding that of immoderate older generation.

And successful Times/Siena polls of six plaything states this period — taken aft Ms. Harris became the presumptive Democratic nominee — young men favored Mr. Trump by 13 points, portion young women favored Ms. Harris by 38 points, a 51-point gap. (Our companion nonfiction connected the displacement among young women is here.)


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