Keller @ Large: Biden, Trump Face Challenge Winning Over Young Voters

By Jon Keller, CBS Boston

August 10, 2024

BOSTON - President Joe Biden will be 81 years old when voters cast their ballots in November 2024. And the Republican front-runner, former President Donald Trump, will be 78.        Young voters will be a key in the election. So how can two aging men win them over?

Biden was at the Grand Canyon Tuesday touting his environmental record in a move he hopes will appeal to younger voters, vowing to "conserve this land of ancestral footprints for all future generations." And no wonder. Because without the lion's share of younger voters there will likely be no Biden second term, says David Paleologos, who recently surveyed young voters for the Suffolk University Political Research Center.

"It was 36% Biden, 30% Trump, and 30% voting for an independent. 30!" says Paleologos. "Biden needs to win young people by 26, not six." Biden's margin was close to that in 2020 with a record-high youth vote turnout. But this time around, he must overcome a backlash.

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