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Young Voters Prefer the Oldest Candidates

March 31, 2019 at 8:06 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

A new Harvard Institute of Politics Poll finds Sen. Bernie Sanders is the favorite among 18- to 29-year-old likely Democratic primary voters at 31%, followed by former Vice President Joe Biden follows in second place at 20%, Beto O’Rourke at 10%, Sen. Kamala Harris at 5%, Sen. Cory Booker at 3%, and Andrew Yang at 2%.

Axios: “The youngest Americans — millennials and Generation Z — will make up 37% of the electorate in 2020, per Pew Research.”

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