President Joe Biden’s strong support for Israel could turn away younger voters who have already soured on the president, even though most Democrats back Biden’s approach to the Israel-Hamas conflict, surveys indicate, as Biden was hit with bleak polling figures this week that show him trailing former President Donald Trump in five of six battleground states.Voters under 30 (who voted for Biden by a 24-point margin in 2020) favor the president over Trump by only a single percentage point, according to a Sunday New York Times/Siena poll of voters in six battleground states.
While negative views of the economy that transcend demographics could be driving Biden’s decline in support, polls indicate Biden’s approach to the Israel-Hamas war could also be deterring younger voters, who are more likely to disapprove of his pro-Israel stance than voters in any other age bracket.
t’s not just younger voters who could be deterred from backing Biden by his policies related to the Israel-Hamas war. Gallup found in March that Democrats across all age brackets surveyed more are sympathetic toward Palestinians than Israelis for the first time since 2001, while an October University of Maryland/Ipsos poll found 25% of Democrats believe the Biden administration’s policies toward the conflict are too pro-Israeli, compared to 1% who said they were too pro-Palestinian.
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