Even before the COVID-19 outbreak and the economic slump, President Donald Trump faced a big challenge in his 2020 re-election effort: a changing American electorate. Young voters have been a challenge for Trump since he entered politics (he lost voters under 40 by double digits in 2016) and every year there is a new set of them entering the voting pool.
There are new voters every year of all ages, of course, but the biggest increase tends to be with those who turn 18 and “age into voting.” A look at the voter registrations since 2016 in four key battleground states shows how the political age divide could have real impacts this fall. CONT.
Dante Chinni, NBC News
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