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According to one survey made Reuters throughout the United States, 67% Young American voters are tired of seeing the same presidential candidates and want other options. A duel
According to one survey made Reuters throughout the United States, 67% Young American voters are tired of seeing the same presidential candidates and want other options. A duel has been announced for the November presidential election between Joe Biden and Donald Trumpthey are unenthusiastic.
“I am not happy with this election, with any of the candidates, and I think many people feel the same way. We feel that at some point the system failed us as voters and as Americans,” he says Joe GentleMichigan citizen.
Young people also question the age of the candidates and their ability to govern the country. “The fact that both parties have failed, at least to date, to provide an opportunity for other candidates to become candidates strikes me as a terrible symptom of the democratic system in the United States. Regardless of the age of the two candidates, I think that could also have an impact,” he comments. Juan Luis LandaetaVenezuelan-American living in New York.
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Biden has 81 years oldis the oldest president in the history of the United States, and Trump, who 77 years oldwill become the second oldest if he wins the election again.
In addition to the difficult economic conditions for young people, there is great resistance to Biden’s support for Israel, and only 19% voters ages 18 to 34 approve of Biden’s response to Israeli war in Palestine.
For Stephanie Servin, a Detroit voter, nothing gets her attention enough to get out and vote: “The boring idea of elections doesn’t excite me at all. “On no topic.”
Youth dissatisfaction can lead to high abstinence rate and influence the result. There have been three “rematch” elections in United States history in which the same two candidates faced each other: in 1892 between Grover Cleveland and John Cleveland. Benjamin Harrison, in 1900 William McKinley v. William Jennings and in 1956 between Eisenhower and Adlai Stevenson. In each of them, participation in the second election declined.
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“I’ve never seen so much apathy to the elections that I’m seeing now, and that’s a very negative thing for me in this election cycle,” says a young Washington woman who prefers to remain anonymous because she works in government.
Vice presidential formulas could be a factor in galvanizing voters given that they could end up in power, but US elections are held on a workday Tuesday, discouraging even more incentive to get out and vote.
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