Just 5 Percent Of Young Voters Strongly Approve Of Biden's Performance

Published: July 20, 2022, 8:54 p.m.

The president's support among young voters \u2014 who generally trend Democratic \u2014 is anemic, with their level of support comparable with his numbers among whites without college degrees and white evangelical Christians.

Part of the problem for Biden may be his big promises: then-candidate Biden promised transformational change, but his narrow control of the Senate and intraparty opposition has constrained his progress on key goals like climate. Despite the president's posture as a deal-maker, he has been largely absent from efforts to break the legislative logjam.

This episode: political correspondent Susan Davis, White House correspondent Franco Ordo\xf1ez, and senior political editor and correspondent Domenico Montanaro.

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