On Tuesday, Democratic Presidential Nominee Hillary Clinton will reveal her plans for gaining the support of millennials – the largest voting bloc who backed Bernie Sanders.
Now that Sanders is out of the running, millennials have been slow to shift their support over to Clinton, who needs their votes to win the election. Her announcement on Tuesday will be a direct appeal to millennials and will include an agenda for addressing problems relevant to the generation.
Her new technology agenda will include student loan deals for millennial entrepreneurs. She wants to offer them a chance to pause federal loans for up to three years while trying tech start-ups. If those start-ups are located in impoverished neighborhoods, the founders could have up to $17,500 of their college loans forgiven after five years. The first hires at the start-ups would also benefit from Clinton’s program.
Another aspect of her tech policy is to have every household in the nation connected to high-speed internet by 2020 and to install free Wi-Fi in public places such as airports.
The details of the plan will be presented Tuesday, a day in which she hopes to gain the attention of Sanders supporters. Her aides believe that millennials will respond more positively to her plans rather than Trump’s “vague” call to make America great again, Time reports.
However, it is unclear whether Sanders’s rhetoric has forever closed off his followers to Clinton. Sanders was the only candidate with positive approval among millennials in the spring, according to a poll by Harvard’s Institute of Politics.
Young voters were vital to both of Barack Obama’s presidential campaigns, and Clinton hopes to secure the same level of support by convincing them she is concerned about the issues they face. According to Clinton’s campaign, she is sending her aides across the country to hear from young voters and give them the opportunity to share their concerns.
