Congressional Democratsâ approval ratings among young voters have plummeted by 19 points since 2017, according to a Harvard Youth Poll released Wednesday.
The 50th edition of the poll found that the amount of young Americans who approve of Congressional Democrats was just 23%, down from 42% in spring 2017. Meanwhile, Congressional Republicansâ approval ratings increased slightly in the same period, reaching 29%, up from 28% in 2017.
While the survey showed that Congressional Republicans notched higher favorability ratings than Congressional Democrats, President Donald Trumpâs job approval rating among voters was relatively low. Of those surveyed, 31% said they approved of the job Trump is doing as president, compared to the 32% reported in spring 2017 and the 29% recorded in Fall 2020, according to the poll.
Still, Trumpâs approval among young black Americans increased from just 6% in 2017 to 16%, an improvement the survey called âstatistically significant.â At the same time, the presidentâs approval among young white Americans declined from 44% to 39%.
The Democratic Party has reportedly been having difficulty developing a strategy to communicate with voters ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.
Several recent surveys have shown that many Americans disapprove of Democratsâ leadership and favor the Republican Party over the Democratic Party. A Yale Youth Poll released April 15 found that when asked whether they would vote for the Democratic or Republican candidate in the 2026 midterms, voters aged 18 to 21 favored the GOP candidate by a margin of 11.7 percentage points.
This poll of 2,096 18-to-29-year-olds was organized with undergraduate students from the Harvard Public Opinion Project and supervised by John Della Volpe, Director of Polling. Data was collected by Ipsos Public Affairs using the KnowledgePanel. The pollâs margin of error for the total sample was plus or minus 3.21%.
All content created by the Daily Caller News Foundation, an independent and nonpartisan newswire service, is available without charge to any legitimate news publisher that can provide a large audience. All republished articles must include our logo, our reporterâs byline and their DCNF affiliation. For any questions about our guidelines or partnering with us, please contact [email protected].