WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans ages 18 to 29 swung toward President-elect Donald Trump in this year’s election, but they came to his coalition with sharply different views and interests than older conservatives or most top Republican leaders.
Trump won nearly half of voters in the age group, compared with about one-third in 2020, according to AP VoteCast, a survey of more than 120,000 voters nationwide. That means that although the youngest voters made up a relatively small share, about 15%, of his coalition, he was nearly as strong among this group as Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic candidate.
VoteCast found that Trump’s younger voters were more motivated by the
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