Why Hillary’s troubles with young voters should worry the GOP

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Last weekend’s “Saturday Night Live” gave viewers a lot to laugh about with its trenchant treatment of Hillary Clinton. Making light of Clinton’s struggles to win over younger voters, one skit imagined Clinton singing “I Can’t Make You Love Me” to a table of four young Bernie Sanders supporters at brunch.

It’s not just “SNL” that finds humor in Clinton’s failings with millennial voters. Many Republicans are delighting in exit poll numbers showing that Clinton trails Sanders by gargantuan margins with Democratic primary voters and caucus goers under age thirty. For instance, in Iowa Clinton won only 14 percent of young caucus goers.

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