October 20, 2023
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Biden’s Failures on Economy, Immigration, and Foreign Policy are Driving Youngest Voters Away - What is The GOP Doing?
By Bill Wilson
President Biden’s failures with young voters goes far beyond the crippling double-digit declines in support he is suffering across battleground states compared to 2020. Democrats are utterly failing to secure loyalty from Gen Z leading into the 2024 election and are facing lower approval ratings from Zoomers than they are from slightly older Millennials.
Gen Z voters – ages 18 to 24 – are emerging into a chaotic economy fraught with crippling inflation, waves of illegal immigration, rising crime, and an unstable world stage, and many are blaming Democrats to a degree that Obama-generation Millennial voters didn’t.
Gen Z is not a small voting coalition. They are projected to represent 13% of votes cast in 2024, or approximately 20 million votes depending on turnout. That is a number of individuals significantly larger than the population of most U.S. states and would be equivalent to adding every single resident from Arizona, Iowa, Nevada, and Wisconsin together.
Biden won Gen Z by 35-percenateg points in 2020, making Zoomers one of the most fundamental Democratic coalitions in the country. He won young Millennials ages 25-29 by a much smaller 11-percentage point margin. While Biden’s polling numbers have fallen across the board, his numbers with Gen Z are now worse than his numbers with Millennials.
Polling across swing states from Redfield & Wilton Strategies shows Biden underperforming with Gen Z to an even greater degree than with Millennials on a range of issues including the economy, foreign policy, and immigration.
Let’s look at Arizona. When asked if Biden should run for re-election in 2024, young voters responded with a resounding no. However, Gen Z had the most vehement opposition to Biden running, with 63% of Zoomers saying Biden shouldn’t run, compared to 51% of 25–34-year-olds. That translates to Gen Z voters opposing Biden’s reelection by 12 more percentage points than Millennials.
Zoomers also give Biden dismal performance marks on his job as president, with a full 51% disapproving, and 37% of the group strongly disapproving. Millennials 25-34 also disapprove of Biden’s performance, but by 13-percentage-pointes less than Zoomers.
On the economy, Zoomers disapprove of Biden’s performance by 14 percentage points, 48% to 34%, while Millennials narrowly disapprove 40% to 39%. This leaves Zoomers disapproving by eight-percentage-points more than Millennials.
Young voters are not having it with Biden’s unchecked border disaster either, and they disapprove of Biden’s handling of immigration by a resounding 56% to 23%. Think about that – less than a quarter of Zoomers, not just Republicans – support Biden’s border policies. Millennials also disapprove of Biden’s handling of immigration but by 12-percenatge-points less than Zoomers – 44% to 31%.
On foreign policy, Zoomers are also much more critical of Biden than Millennials are. Zoomers disapprove of Biden’s foreign policy 43% to 29%, while Millennials narrowly disapprove 29% to 23%. Zoomers disapprove of Biden’s foreign policy by 14-percenatge-points more than Millennials.
Democrats have long banked on the youngest voters in the country rallying behind their progressive agenda, but with Gen Z that could be changing for the first time in decades.
Regardless of the media and mainstream institutions propping up the Biden Administration’s perilous policies, young people are facing rising costs of living, waves of illegal immigration, and a chaotic world, and many blame Biden for a lack of action on these issues.
Gen Z is starting to see through the progressive facade, but unless Republicans look beyond the mainstream headlines attempting to portray young people as collectively lost to the far-left, conservatives will miss an opportunity here.
Bill Wilson is the former president of Americans for Limited Government.
To view online: https://dailytorch.com/2023/10/bidens-failures-on-economy-immigration-and-foreign-policy-are-driving-youngest-voters-away-what-is-the-gop-doing/
Video: Biden Wants To Fund Hamas
To view online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziS1iNAxy0U
$100 million for Hamas will incentivize more attacks on Israel
By Rick Manning
A terrorist group killed 32 Americans, and still holds at least 10 Americans as hostages after a military attack on civilian homes and a musical festival which left 1300 Israelis dead.
U.S. President Joe Biden’s response is to reward the terrorists and their allies with $100 million in aid from U.S. taxpayers with few strings attached.
If I have to explain why this is dangerous and morally reprehensible, I’m astonished that you could read this statement.
Does Hamas have to return the hostages? Nope.
This isn’t negotiating with terrorists, this is funding them under the guise of “humanitarian assistance.”
The same Hamas that is responsible for the governance of Gaza, released videos of the carnage complete with beheadings and parading of a broken, dead woman through the streets of Gaza City.
That same Hamas also used cement intended for ‘humanitarian’ building of hospitals and infrastructure to build an extensive terrorist tunnel structure to aid their war against Israel in the past.
And that same Hamas released videos showing them digging up pipes laid to deliver water to the people of Gaza and turning those pipes into missiles aimed at civilians in Israel.
Congress must stop this idiocy and only authorize money which goes directly to Israel’s defense.
To continue funding Hamas and the Palestinian Authority on the West Bank is to continue funding terrorism aimed at Israel and the rest of the civilized world.
Joe Biden might not be able to understand this simple truth, but Congress must.
No money for terrorists.
More than forty years after Camp David and subsequent land for peace deals by Israel, there is no pretending that those who would drive Israel into the Mediterranean exterminating seven million Jews in the process cannot be appeased.
It is time to stop giving them the money to terrorize Israel and the world.
Rick Manning is the President of Americans for Limited Government.
To view online: https://dailytorch.com/2023/10/100-million-for-hamas-will-incentivize-more-attacks-on-israel/
ALGF joins amicus curiae brief in SEC v. Jarkesy
Oct. 19, 2023, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government Research Foundation President Rick Manning today issued the following statement after signing onto an amicus curiae brief in SEC v. Jarkesy:
"Americans for Limited Government Research Foundation is proud to join Advancing American Freedom and many others in filing an amicus brief on SEC v. Jarkesy. The administrative state has too often become prosecutor, judge and jury in determining the guilt or innocence of those accused of violating regulations. The Constitutional separation of powers was created to provide checks against this consolidation of power. Mr. Jarkesy has been abused by a system devised under the guise of expertise, but which is really nothing more than a consolidation of power within the executive branch which does not extend guaranteed legal protections to the accused. It is time for the Supreme Court to end this fixed, quasi-legal system."
To view online: https://getliberty.org/2023/10/algf-joins-amicus-curiae-brief-in-sec-v-jarkesy/
Urge House To Support Jim Jordan For House Speaker
