Will Trump win the youth vote by default?

[Nyvin]

Brand New Poll/Survey just released .....

A new poll suggests that a race for president between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton could yield the lowest support for a Republican candidate among young voters in decades.

The survey, conducted by the Harvard University Institute of Politics, finds that in a hypothetical matchup, 61% of likely voters age 18-29 say they would vote for Clinton, while just 25% would vote for Trump. That's worse than most other recent Republican candidates for president.

Read the survey details and weep, trump supporters:
http://iop.harvard.edu/iop-now/harvard-iop-spring-2016-poll
Or additional commentary via CNN:
http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/25/politics/donald-trump-young-voters/index.html

Not really surprising at all.   The only real question is how much the youth vote hurts the Republicans down ballot.

If nothing else I hope this stops all these delusional threads about Trump "Winning" the youth vote....which was always nonsense from the start.

[Kingpoleon]

No, the youth are idiots who prefer corruption to instability.

[Badger]

Of course not. Don't be silly.

[Stranger in a strange land]

Rubio would have won it against Hillary.  Trump probably loses it, but not as badly as Romney, largely because the current 18-24 crowd is somewhat more conservative than the previous one.

You got any proof of that?  Anecdotes and feelings dont count.  Also, Trump is far less popular than Romney, so...

https://youtu.be/s3sFeOlZ9zM?t=15m27s

CPAC attendees are a tiny, self-selecting sample. I see little reason why Rubio or any other Republican would be able to win young millennials, who among other things are even less white and less religious than older millennials. There's also zero evidence, in polling or otherwise, that Rubio would have any special appeal to non-Cuban Latinos.