Politics & Government
Keller: RFK Jr.'s Campaign Shows Just How Out Of Touch Republicans, Democrats Are With Young Voters
"If you're under 30, you probably know my name, but you may not know much about me," said Kennedy.
May 16, 2024
BOSTON - "Right now, I'm the top choice for young voters in this country," declared independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in a recent TikTok video.
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Not quite. Kennedy trails both Trump and Biden in the polls.
But his healthy 18% support among 18- to 29-year-olds in new battleground state surveys (conducted by the New York Times, Siena College and the Philadelphia Inquirer) reflects how many of them get their news mostly from social media like TikTok and YouTube, where the message they get is very different from mainstream media's portrayal of Kennedy as part of the conspiratorial fringe.
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