Among the worst demographic groups for Donald Trump are college graduates and young people. A recent CNN poll, for instance, found that just 25 percent of voters under 30 say they’re voting for the Republican nominee—far below the average of 38 percent GOP candidates have received with this group since 1992. And even among Republicans, Trump’s support from both the young and the college-educated is falling below what Mitt Romney did with those groups in 2012.
So perhaps it’s no surprise that Trump’s nomination is causing strife in college Republican groups across the country. Politico has the story:
The president of [Pennsylvania State University’s] chapter of College Republicans had a sense of what he was in for. Less than two weeks before, the group had announced in a Facebook post that they would not endorse Donald Trump after holding an online vote — a move that sparked outrage, including a call from the chairman of the Pennsylvania Federation of College Republicans for Straw to resign. So when Straw gaveled in the chapter’s first meeting of the school year on Monday, it wasn’t altogether surprising that he was confronted by angry college Trump supporters — some wearing the signature “Make America Great Again” hats — demanding a re-vote of the non-endorsement and chanting Trump’s name throughout the meeting. Straw ultimately made it through the hostile meeting without budging on the endorsement, or his own tenure as president of the group. And he says the tensions that have bubbled up on his campus were inevitable. “I don’t think it’s extraordinary because obviously young voters are having a hard time supporting Donald Trump,” Straw said about his chapter’s decision not to endorse Trump. “I think it was bound to happen.” Still, Penn State’s chapter is wading into unprecedented territory of declining to endorse the party’s nominee for president, and they are joined by a growing number of College Republicans chapters nationwide that are steering clear of Trump.
Read the whole thing here.
