When the Conservatives did unusually well among young voters in Canada’s 2025 federal election, even winning the national student mock vote for the first time in over a decade, one explanation making the rounds was that Canada was following what happened south of the border.
In the 2024 U.S. presidential election, young voters, especially young men, moved toward Donald Trump and the Republicans, a shift many credited to Trump’s strategy of going on podcasts and YouTube to reach younger audiences.
