Harris leads Trump among young voters by 12 points - CNN poll
A new CNN poll published on Wednesday, has Democratic nominee Kamala Harris leading former president Donald Trump by 12 points among likely voters under the age of 35.
The survey also found that “female likely voters younger than 35 prefer Harris over Trump” 53% to 39%, but male likely voters are more closely divided.
Though Harris is leading among young people, CNN reports that the vice-president’s lead among under 35 year olds is smaller than the lead president Joe Biden had in 2020, when he was up 21 points among that same age group.
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Senator Richard Blumenthal, a Democrat representing Connecticut, said on Wednesday that what happened on July 13, at Donald Trump’s rally in Butler Pennsylvania, where an assassin opened fire, killing an attendee and wounding the former president, was an “accumulation of errors that produced a perfect storm of stunning failure.”
“It was a tragedy & completely preventable from the outset” he added.
Blumenthal was responding to the new bipartisan Senate report released earlier today that found that the Secret Service made “preventable” errors in securing the rally.
In a series of posts on X, Blumenthal added that there “was both a failure to provide resources—like a working radio, drone detection system, or counter surveillance team—& lack of an effective chain of command” and that Wednesday’s report was “only an interim step”.
“I look forward to our continuing pursuit of evidence to help understand what went so catastrophically wrong & how we can prevent an event like this from ever happening again” he said.
