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A new poll shows that President Donald Trump is losing support among young \u201creluctant right\u201d voters who elected him in 2024. According to a report in the Washington Examiner<\/u>, only two in five of young voters who only voted for Trump because they didn\u2019t like Kamala Harris say they are committed to voting Republican in the fast-approaching midterms. <\/p>\n

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While 14 percent of that group says they will support only Democratic candidates, and 24 percent say they will vote for a mix of candidates, \u201cmany may well just stay home, said Stephen Hawkins, Global Director of Research for More in Common, a non-profit group that examines social faultlines,\u201d explaining, \u201c\u2018It\u2019s not just, oh, he\u2019s not doing as well as we thought he would be doing in terms of helping the economy turn around. It\u2019s that there\u2019s a sense it\u2019s much worse than that, because the president is trying to distract from the Epstein scandal, and it\u2019s coming at the expense of everyday Americans\u2019 pocketbooks.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

This shift has primarily been driven by younger Trump voters: \u201cOverall, 11 percent of Gen Z and 8 percent of Millennial Trump voters say they will vote Democratic, compared with 3 percent of Gen X and Boomers.\u201d <\/p>\n

According to the Examiner, the Reluctant Right made up 20 percent of Trump\u2019s electorate in 2024, describing them as \u201cthe most ambivalent cohort of Trump\u2019s coalition, and the group most likely to have voted for Trump transactionally: the businessman who was \u2018less bad\u2019 than the alternative. Overall, the Reluctant Right gives Trump\u2019s performance a rating of 52 out of 100. Compared with 93 for the MAGA Hardliners, 83 for Anti-Woke Conservatives, and 82 for Mainline Republicans.\u201d<\/p>\n

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This shift comes as Trump\u2019s approval rating has cratered to historic lows and the MAGA movement has seen a string of high-profile defections. Last week, prominent conservative media figure Tucker Carlson announced that he was leaving the Republican Party<\/u> altogether after months of speaking against Trump, who he had supported since the beginning of his movement, playing a key role in promoting his election in 2016. Similarly, former Representative and Trump ally Marjorie Taylor Greene has made a dramatic exit from MAGA<\/u>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe poll examined their impact on the coalition and found that they were not yet triggering a broader GOP defection,\u201d said the Examiner. \u201cMost Trump voters who have heard their criticism say it has not changed their views and some say it has actually made them more supportive of Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n

But according to Hawkins, these defections could be setting the stage for a rupture. As he explains, \u201cWhat [Carlson is] doing is he\u2019s undermining the sense that President Trump is on your side,\u201d he said. \u201cThat was already weaker in the Reluctant Right. And he is giving voice to concerns that younger Republicans, younger conservatives have about President Trump to do with being too focused on personal projects, being involved in corruption, having to hide his Epstein affiliation by changing the subject to foreign policy, and then having a negative impact on prices in the economy.\u201d<\/p>\n

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