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☆ Gen Z Loves Kamala More Than Biden. but It's Not an Obama 2008 Repeat.
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-27 | by ( Daniel Cox | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +13 min

Back in 2008, the Obama campaign made an unprecedented effort to target young voters. In critical swing states like Pennsylvania and Nevada, young voters were more likely to report being contacted by the Obama campaign than older voters were. The issues that fire up young voters are increasingly out of step with the interests of an older, more moderate electorate. Young women have grown more liberal, and young men have become noticeably more sympathetic to the GOP. Related storiesSo to court America's young voters, Harris needs to appeal to their desire for something new.

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☆ Pelosi, Long Fixated on Winning, Is in No Mood to Lose With Biden
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-18 | by ( Carl Hulse | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Nancy Pelosi is all about winning. And the former speaker is in no mood to start losing now, as evidence mounts that President Biden is staring at a major defeat that could drag his party down with him. And his loss, she fears, could cost her party its chance to win back the House, potentially its only firewall against a second Donald J. Trump presidency. Ms. Pelosi, according to those who have talked with her, conveyed those sentiments in phone calls with the president and with alarmed colleagues who have reached out to her for guidance on what to do. The former speaker is intimately familiar with the minutiae of campaigns from her years following House races district by district, and she has been marshaling her knowledge of the political map, polling data and fund-raising information to press her case with Mr. Biden.

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☆ The Other Showdown to Watch Next Week
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-21 | by ( Nicholas Fandos | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Today, we’re looking at a political brawl that’s become a high-stakes battle for the future of the Democratic Party. Then I’ll take you behind the scenes of a photo shoot featuring Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s ravens. — Jess BidgoodThis time last year, Representative Jamaal Bowman of New York seemed finally to be hitting his stride. Come Tuesday, when New York holds its House primaries, he may be looking for a new line of work. His stand — for a cease-fire and against American military aid — galvanized younger Democrats and the party’s left flank.

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☆ Biden faces widening partisan split over Israel
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-06 | by ( Ronald Brownstein | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +17 min

CNN —President Joe Biden is facing more critical moments this week that will test his fraught relationship with his base over Israel’s war in Gaza and potentially widen the partisan split about the Jewish state that has been building for years. Against this backdrop, partisan polarization about Israel among American voters was already widening years before the brutal Hamas attack last October and the devastating Israeli response it triggered. An array of polls this spring show how the war in Gaza has hardened this partisan split. Nearly half of Democrats, but only a little over one-fifth of Republicans in the CBS poll, said the US should pressure Israel to stop the fighting. “Biden has a Democratic caucus that is putting a lot of faith in this process,” she said.

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☆ Biden pulls even with Trump as economic view improves slightly, CNBC survey shows
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-26 | by ( Steve Liesman | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Evelyn Hockstein | David Swanson | ReutersAmericans' views on the economy have improved modestly, according to the latest CNBC All-America Economic Survey, helping President Biden pull even with Donald Trump in a head-to-head matchup. But former President Trump holds a commanding lead on several economic issues, like inflation, taxes and immigration, that voters say are most important in this election. The survey of 1,001 Americans across the country showed 46% of voters choose Trump and 45% picking Biden in a one-on-one match with 10% undecided. Younger Democrats, in fact, are evenly split on the presidents handling of foreign policy. While those issues look to be dragging on the president's approval, he has received a boost from somewhat better overall views on the economy.

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☆ Polling shows a huge age gap divides the Democratic Party on Israel
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-20 | by ( Harry Enten | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

Younger Democrats are far more likely than older Democrats to view Israel skeptically when it comes to this war as well as the larger geopolitical context. It’s the inverse among older Democrats. Perhaps not surprisingly, these younger Democrats don’t think we should be supplying military aid to Israel in its war with Hamas. He won voters younger than 35 by more than 20 points in 2020. It’s not clear that Biden’s handling of the war is causing his decreased backing from younger voters, but it can’t be helping him.

Persons: Joe Biden, It’s, Israel, Biden, don’t, Quinnipiac, Donald Trump, – Trump Organizations: CNN, Democratic, Quinnipiac University, Democrats, Hamas, Health, Israel, Republicans Locations: Israel, Gaza, America

☆ Jewish Viewers Find a Refuge in Fox News
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-03 | by ( Jeremy W. Peters | More About Jeremy W. Peters | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

Since September, Fox News’s audience has grown by a larger percentage than CNN and MSNBC in Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Washington and Miami. And in the New York market — the nation’s largest — Fox has lately beaten its left-leaning rival, MSNBC, by a few percentage points. In September, Fox was drawing 16 percent fewer viewers than MSNBC in New York. Fox News — with the largest audience in all of cable television in recent years — draws a sizable number of Democratic and liberal-leaning viewers. “My Jewish liberal friends will text me and they’ll say, ‘Oh, this is where you go in the afternoon?’ because they never watched Fox before,” she said.

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☆ Harvard has become the poster child for American culture wars in the 11 days since Hamas' terrorist attack on Israel. Here's what's happened.
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-18 | by ( Grace Dean | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +15 min

Harvard University has become a flashpoint in the intergenerational divide on the Israel-Hamas war. AdvertisementAdvertisementIn the 11 days since Palestinian militant group Hamas launched its terrorist attack on Israel, Harvard University has become a flashpoint for intergenerational tensions about the war — and the broader culture war around campus free speech. Hamas launches terrorist attacks on IsraelPalestinian militant group Hamas launched a series of terrorist attacks on Israel on October 7, with Israel retaliating. AdvertisementAdvertisement"These hateful Harvard students are the future leaders of our society," Rep. Ritchie Torres of New York wrote on X. Some student groups backtrackSome student groups that co-signed the original statement have since withdrawn their signatures.

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WASHINGTON — Majority Whip Jim Clyburn, D-S.C., beat back a leadership challenge on Thursday and will remain among the top House Democrats in the next Congress. Clyburn had faced a last-minute, surprise challenge from Rep. David Cicilline, D-R.I., for assistant leader, the No. 4 post, but the latter dropped his bid moments before the vote and endorsed Clyburn, members leaving the closed-door vote said. Cicilline’s decision means that Clyburn, 82, will remain in leadership at a time of generational change for the party. As assistant leader, Clyburn will serve alongside a new leadership slate.

4 position in House Democratic leadership. “I would be honored and humbled to have your support and to be able to join Hakeem Jeffries, Katherine Clark, and Pete Aguilar as part of the new generation of House leadership,” Cicilline wrote. From 2011 to 2019, he had served as assistant Democratic leader and also worked as the chair and vice chair of his caucus. Several younger Democrats were upset and surprised by Clyburn's decision to run for a leadership position. Another younger Democratic member who is supporting Cicilline said Wednesday, "I think it’s pretty ridiculous that Nancy had to leave.

As House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said herself, quoting scripture on the House floor Thursday: “For everything there is a season — a time for every purpose under heaven.”For Pelosi, the season to be leader of House Democrats has passed. She’ll continue to represent San Francisco while serving as an invaluable source of guidance and resolve for the next generation of House Democratic leaders. At 82, Pelosi is a historic figure, of course: the first female House speaker and one of the strongest speakers, if not the strongest, that America has ever seen. Yet as a minority in a GOP-run House, Democrats won’t be able to rack up accomplishments like they did in the last two years. There were calls for Pelosi to step aside in 2010 when Democrats lost 60 House seats — a true wipeout.

WASHINGTON — Americans were still waiting Friday to learn which party will control the House and Senate next year. Three days after final ballots were cast in the 2022 midterm elections, more than two dozen House races have not yet been called, with a number of them in California and other areas in the western half of the country. Republicans have a better chance of winning a majority in the House, though the Democrats still have a chance to retain control. As of Friday morning, Republicans have won 211 seats, Democrats have won 197 and 27 races remain uncalled. The Senate also hangs in the balance, as results in key races in Arizona and Nevada have not been decided.

☆ Millennials and Gen Z want to stop a climate catastrophe. But first they have to get elected.
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-22 | by ( Eliza Relman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +24 min

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a California Democrat, told young climate activists in 2019, "You didn't vote for me." AP Photo/Gemunu AmarasingheBut most policy debates aren't genuinely existential in the way climate change is. "Younger Democrats tend to have a much more friendly relationship and response to the party's activist class than older Democrats do." Fossil-fuel interests have played a central role in stymieing progress on climate change for decades. Nearly a decade later, Trump ran for and won the presidency — with Gingrich's early and staunch support — while calling climate change a "hoax."

☆ A 3-way game of geriatric chicken featuring Trump, Biden, and Bernie has younger Democrats and Republicans itching for change
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-19 | by ( Darren Samuelsohn | Kimberly Leonard | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

The 2024 presidential race is already coming into view. These are arguments Biden is readying to run on as Trump — despite his numerous legal troubles — flirts with another White House bid. It's also the case that Sanders' 2024 aspirations remain in their own holding pattern until Biden makes his own formal declaration of his intentions. It's a fact the White House doesn't want to talk about. "The fact they both made it to the White House makes them think they both know how to get to the White House," said Brinkley.

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