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A key group of voters that helped return President Donald Trump to the White House is turning on him, according to a political researcher.

Rachel Janfaza, the founder of the Gen Z-focused newsletter The Up and Up, told host Katie Phang on Saturday's episode of "Katie Phang News" that young men who were among Trump's loudest backers in 2024 have soured on his second term.

"They look at the Trump administration, including a lot of those young men who were his most vocal supporters in 2024, and say, 'Since he's taken office, inflation has gone up. The economy has gotten worse. The job market has gotten worse. There's corruption beyond belief. He's building a ballroom. He is now the establishment that he sought to tear down,'" Janfaza said....

CNN data guru Harry Enten couldn't believe his eyes when he saw the latest figures showing President Donald Trump's declining favorability among a group that helped him return to the White House.

During a segment about Trump's planned UFC fight on the White House South Lawn, CNN anchor Kate Bolduan and Enten looked at numbers reflecting how young men feel about the president.

"Younger men, specifically, who are the big fans of UFC and Donald Trump, of course, put in a historic performance with back in the 2024 election for a Republican candidate for president," Enten explained. "He actually won them. He won men under the age of 30 by a point. Look at his net approval rating now."...

An analyst Tuesday suggested that the Texas primaries could signal a major shift nationally among key voting blocs in the Democratic Party.

Jim Messina, former White House deputy chief of staff for operations, described in his new Substack piece what Democrats should keep in mind heading into the midterms and the next presidential election. Messina argued on MS NOW Tuesday morning that Democrats need to build a stronger relationship with young men in an effort to stop losing their votes in elections, advocating that progressive strategists should look at TikTok, streaming, cryptocurrency, sports, betting and prediction markets as paths to reaching this group.

"If you look at the issues, you know, Dems bled young voters in historic numbers in the last presidential [election]," Messina said. "And I think there's a view in my party that we just need to get on a couple Joe Rogan podcasts or we need to hang out with tech bros and it will all be fine. It's really just about, you know, figuring out social media. And I think it's deeper than that. Right now we're the party saying 'No' to a bunch of things that young male voters like and do every day, like video games, like sports betting, like prediction markets, like crypto, and they look at this and say, 'You're saying no, to all these things, maybe you're saying no to me, too.'" ...

Republicans are losing their grip on young men, a key voting group "seduced by an ecosystem of hucksters," while Democrats make serious gains among the demographic, according to a PhD researcher at the University of Melbourne.

Cory Alpert, a former Biden-Harris administration strategist who studies how AI impacts democracy, wrote an opinion piece for The Guardian describing how Democrats' focus on affordability has pushed men left in the elections this month.

"Young men in the US face a political identity crisis," Alpert wrote. "It should not be controversial to say that the world that many were promised as children has not come to fruition. Two decades of war and a turbulent economy have combined with a massively changing workforce. Young men’s disaffection should come as no real surprise."...