By Asher Notheis, Social Media Producer. Media:
The View hosts spent President Joe Biden’s 81st birthday expressing concern over his 2024 reelection chances and how some demographics could choose not to vote for him.
The hosts’ discussion, less than a year away from the 2024 presidential election, comes after Vice President Kamala Harris said that she and Biden were “going to have to earn our reelect.” The two voting demographics the hosts were concerned about were younger voters and black voters. Co-host Sunny Hostin said the likely Democratic nominee would not be able to win the election without the black vote.
“I do wonder, because voting rights are still under attack, because of student loan debt, because of the HBCU gap in tuition, the lack of funding, because of no police reform or real police reform, whether or not black voters are going to support this president,” Hostin said. “I hope they will. They must because the other option — the alternative is the alternative from hell.”
The hosts also were concerned about whether younger voters will vote for Biden. Co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin noted that many younger voters are not happy with Biden’s support for Israel in its war against Hamas and some possibly are disappointed that they did not receive student loan forgiveness. Co-host Sara Haines agreed, saying she was shocked by younger voters’ reaction to Biden’s support of Israel.
“One thing I’m shocked at is that this young vote in regard to what’s going on in the Middle East has so supremely — I don’t know if it will affect where they vote or if they vote, but there’s a certain ignorance, and it might be just inherent to lack of experience, that they would risk getting Donald Trump,” Haines said. “If they don’t like what President Biden has done in the Middle East, wait for it, young people, wait for it, ’cause Donald Trump is not going to be the right person for the job.”
The subject of winning over the younger voters in the United States is one that both parties are facing. In a rematch between Biden and Trump, the expected 2024 Republican presidential nominee, the former president is winning more support from voters between the ages of 18 and 34. Trump polled at 46% with voters from this age group, while Biden earned 42%, according to a new poll.
Another problem the Biden administration faces is the economy. Recent polling data showed that 59% of voters under the age of 30 rate the state of the economy as “poor.” Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Monday that she believes “it’s our job” to explain to voters what Biden has done to address this subject.
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