Young Trump voters regretful as president focuses on everything but the economy
29 January
A supporter of President Donald Trump in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on August 23, 2023 (Image: Shutterstock)
President Donald Trump continues to hemorrhage support from his young MAGA supporters he relied on for his coalition in 2024.
The Daily Beast cited a new poll from The Wall Street Journal of 18 to 29-year-olds show that in the past year Trump has fallen nearly 12 points with young voters.
The data shows that Trump has fallen to 32.6 percent as of Jan. 16. In March 2025, he was sitting around 44.4 percent. In the November election, 47 percent of voters under 30 cast their ballots for him. It was a huge number for Republicans who haven't had much success with young voters since the 2004 election.
"This is not the party I once signed up for and registered to be in,” Saint Mary’s College junior Elysia Morales, 21, told the Journal.
She wasn't merely a Republican however. Morales was the vice president of her Turning Point USA chapter, the group founded by Charlie Kirk. However, after the shooting death of ICU nurse Alex Jeffrey Pretti in Minneapolis last week.
Support for Trump among youth was ginned up primarily through young male voters who listen to some of the podcasts in the so-called "manosphere."
However, their support is evaporating too, said a poll of young male voters also conducted in the new year. The male support for Trump remains higher (32 percent) than young female voters (26 percent).
The youth that the Journal spoke to also expressed disappointment that Trump is more focused on foreign policy and his grievances than in fixing their problems.
“I love the idea of America First,” said 22-year-old food-service worker Jaden Blomberg. “I don’t think that this particular moment in history, while we have internal problems, we should be fighting on the other side of the world."
Twenty-one-year-old Maellie Lewna, a College Republicans recruitment director agreed.
“A lot of people expected him to address economic issues first,” she said.