Millennials have had it with promises of “hope and change.” Now, when politicians promise them things they more or less believe they’ll “try and fail” or “won’t try at all.”
According to a poll released by Quinnipiac University on Thursday, a majority of millennials do not believe that Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton will keep their campaign promises. Worse yet, while they think the Republican nominee will try and fail to create change in Washington, they don’t believe the former First Lady will even try.
When it comes to Trump’s pledge to build a wall on the border and have Mexico pay for it, just 20 percent believe he’ll accomplish the task, while 51 percent believe he’ll try and fail. A quarter of Gen-Y believes he won’t try at all.
Slightly more millennials believe that Trump would be successful in his efforts to deport all the illegal immigrants from the U.S. and have a temporary halt on Muslim’s from entering the U.S., with 22 percent and 28 percent believing he’d be successful respectively.
Still, a majority in the case of deporting illegals and a plurality in the case of the ban believe he’d try and fail.
For whatever it’s worth, at least they believe Trump would attempt to keep his campaign promises which is more than what they can about Clinton.
A majority of millennials believe that the Democratic frontrunner will not even try to keep her campaign promise and “remove secret money from politics” or “rein in the power of Wall Street.” 66 percent and 56 percent, respectively, believe she will not attempt to do either.
The only issue a majority of Gen-Y voters think that Clinton will work to achieve is her goal to make “in-state public colleges debt free, and community colleges completely free.” Just 28 percent believe she’ll achieve this goal, but 40 percent she’ll try and fail. Only a 29 percent of millennials think she won’t even try, which is a great number for Clinton.
Between their negative feelings towards both major candidates and their doubts that either will accomplish the goals they’ve set forth, it’s hard to imagine how young voter turnout matches 2008 or 2012.
