“Politico did a report last year … and what they found is that only 27 percent of young men actually found the Democrat Party to be positive, whereas the rest of young men said the Democrats seem weak [and] ineffective, and [young men] had the opposite views for Republicans, which is partially why you saw that gender gap with Kamala Harris in 2024,” The Federalist’s Brianna Lyman said on CNN’s The Arena with Kasie Hunt when discussing recent comments from former President Barack Obama on Democrats aging out of touch with their voters.
“What [Zohran] Mamdani did differently [from other Democrats] … [is] he also didn’t treat young voters … in my generation as though we were children. … Mamdani said ‘No, I’m not going to try and appeal to you like that, I’m going to appeal to you on issues that actually matter [to young voters.]’ I don’t like Mamdani, but he did what other Democrats — like Pelosi [and] Biden — have been unable to do when they’re in that age category.”
