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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Carter Sherman

‘A big cratering’: an expert on gen Z’s surprise votes – and young women’s growing support for Trump

young people stand in a line to vote
Kamala Harris won voters aged 18-29 by six points, with a wide gender gap. Photograph: Jonathan Drake/Reuters

Long before voting closed in the 2024 elections, pundits predicted that young Americans would be riven by a canyon-wide gender gap. Those predictions turned out to be correct.

As a whole, Kamala Harris won voters between the ages of 18 and 29 by six points. But preliminary exit polling indicates that Donald Trump opened up a 16-point gender gap between young men and young women: 56% of men between the ages of 18 and 29 voted for Trump while just 40% of their female peers did so.

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