Top Pollster Reflects On Where Trump Picked Up Historic Support: Younger Americans
Charlie Kirk Staff
11/07/2024

The new Republican Party crafted and created by President-elect Donald Trump and leaders like TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk and activist Scott Presler are recruiting new demographics to its ranks.
And those demographics, that include young voters, women and minorities are changing the Republican Party into the party of the people with messages that resonate with voter, pollster Matt Towery said to FOX News host Laura Ingraham.
“I guess you’re about to have on Charlie Kirk. A lot of that had to do with the hard work of groups like Charlie’s to get these younger voters out and voting. Because we know that’s a group that’s hard to engage. They’re low-propensity voters. And that’s why they got out because of the strategy that was created by the Trump campaign and by groups like Charlie’s,” Towery said.
“I think the other issue was that I found, if you remember back in 1980, Laura, when Reagan won, that was a year when the youngest of voters somehow found an affinity for Ronald Reagan. And it was cool on campuses to be for Ronald Reagan. That’s sort of what happened in this instance. Young people, the inflation has affected them,” he added.
“They’re confused because they want to start out life with optimism. They probably don’t feel as pessimistic as the message the Democrats delivered. And they decided they wanted to go back to the way things were when they were in high school or whatever, when Trump was president. So they voted for him. I think that’s what happened,” Towery noted further.
The host wondered if the president-elect’s message about avoiding a draft for foreign wars resonated with young voters, to which the pollster said, “It was smart because he could actually point to the fact he had four peaceful years. And it’s ironic that oftentimes we associate presidents like Ronald Reagan. Ronald Reagan was not someone who wanted to go to war at all. He had a great time period as well.
“I mean, occasionally they had to get involved. But I think young people are attracted to candidates who give them an idea that their life will be tranquil, it will be peaceful, and there’ll be an opportunity for them to move forward and build the careers they want. And I think the war message resonated as well,” he said.