‘Huge Concern’: Top Youth Pollster Fears Dems Losing Grip On Key Generation Of Voters

Harvard Kennedy School’s Institute of 🏛️Politics Polling Director Jonathan Della Volpe expressed worry during a Friday podcast that Democrats may be losing ground with younger voters.

Della Volpe, on “Fast Politics w/ Molly Jong-Fast,” said he fears the Democrat Party missed an extraordinary chance to solidify its influence with young Americans in recent years.

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“The concern I have for Democrats is just a handful of years ago, I would say that every day that, for every thousand young people who turn 18, Molly, like 700 of them, six or 700 of them, have values aligned with the Democrat Party,” Della Volpe said. “It was like this incredible opportunity for the Democrats to kind of cement kind of their values with an emerging generation. They didn’t communicate that very well.”

“And now we’re living, you know, in what I think is the beginning of a post-ideological era with younger people, okay, where, because of the concerns about economics, they’re voting in what they would say is a much more pragmatic way than they did, you know, in maybe ’16 or, you know, in ’18 or even in ’20,” he continued. “So that’s a concern if younger people agree with Democrats on most issues, but they’re not voting in the numbers that they voted with Democrats in the past. That’s a huge concern because my generation is just getting more conservative, right?”

Della Volpe is part of Generation X,