President Donald Trump is "on shaky ground" with a key part of his base because he's failed to deliver on two big promises during his second term, according to a pollster.
John Della Volpe, Polling Director at the Harvard Kennedy School, discussed Trump's recent polling among young men, who were a key part of his winning coalition in 2024, on a new episode of "The Daily Beast Podcast." Volpe said that Trump's failures to reduce the cost of living and his mishandling of the Jeffrey Epstein files have caused his support among this key demographic to suffer.
"As much work as I think Democrats have to do, Republicans are on shaky ground with young people, with younger men," Volpe said. "And what we all need to appreciate is that the voters in 2028 and many of the voters in 2026 weren't part of the 2024 election."
"Those voters came of age during the Biden term," he continued. "The post-COVID effect, isolation, loneliness, inflation, a feeling that America was weaker, not stronger."
"So that was what younger men and many younger women brought into the electorate," he added. "That's a lot of how they made their decisions based upon that reaction. Well, today's high school students, young college students, young people in the workforce, their political identity is being developed through the first year of the Trump 2.0 term, and mostly all of it is negative.