Shocker! Gen Z Now Regrets Voting For Trump

Gen Z voters have all but abandoned their support for Donald Trump, according to a new poll from YouGov and The Economist.

Trump's unprecedented jump in approval with Gen Z late last year is now gone. That's cool, but I wish it had never started in the first place. By July 21, his approval rating sat at just 28 percent among Gen Z voters, a WHOPPING 62-point drop from its peak just eight months ago.

Gen Z’s Trump buyer’s remorse set in almost immediately following his re-election, and has only gotten worse. I don't know why they thought electing the felon over the prosecutor would make things better in the country, but here we are. Trump's ratings never recovered, and he has been underperforming with Gen Z voters since March, approaching his lowest-ever approval rating among the country’s youngest voters.

Nearly half of Gen Z voters polled in July said they thought the Republican Party had moved too far right, while only 24 percent said the Democratic Party had moved too far left.

Since November 2022, YouGov has only recorded his favorability as falling below -43 twice among the 18 to 29 age group. The first drop occurred during his civil fraud trial in October 2023, and the second in March 2024, during the lead-up to his criminal hush money trial.

As a separate YouGov CBS News poll found this week, voters—especially those 18 to 29—are unhappy with Trump and his administration on nearly every major issue. 66 percent of Gen Z respondents said they thought he was “too tough” on immigration, while 71 percent said they disapproved of his handling of the economy.

And of course, there's the elephant in the room - Epstein - another major issue damaging Trump’s ratings. The scandal surrounding Jeffrey Epstein and the “Epstein tapes” has hurt Trump harder than literally staging a coup against the government on January 6th. 41 percent of Gen Z respondents believed Trump likely knew “a lot” about Epstein’s crimes before his 2019 arrest, while 42 percent said they believed Trump and Epstein were “close friends.”

That narrative was supported by the late Epstein himself, who told author Michael Wolff in 2017 that he was Trump’s “closest friend for 10 years.”

If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and was friends with a pedophile for over 10 years...it's probably Donald Trump, who is named several times in the Epstein files.