Youth vote in the United States

I'm Pierre Bien-Aimé for The Wall Street Journal.

This is What's New Sunday, and today we bring you part two of our special series on the youth vote, Looking at the Democrats.

Joining me now to discuss all this are two of my colleagues here in Washington, politics reporters Sabrina Rodriguez and Maya Davis.

So first things first, I'm 38, but am I talking to two Gen Zers or no?

Talking about demographics, earlier at the top of the show, we heard from Democratic candidate Manny Brutinell in Colorado's 8th.

That district is 40% Latino.

Now, that's a vote that, like the youth vote, as we've seen, once reliably went to Democrats, then shifted toward Republicans.

Plus, the Latino population is itself younger than average, median age closer to 31 compared to around 40 for the country as a whole.

But I don't think it's gonna get all the way down to 30%.

It's, there's just-- We're seeing it among the youth vote specifically.

Eighteen to 29 white voters outside of the Atlanta area are at 28% of their turnout level through two days from 2024.

Black 18 to 29 voters are at 90% of their turnout level.

Just something I've been looking at as we're talking about all these movements towards Hispanics in, um, in this midterm election.

Okay, some Senate races I gotta pick your brain on.

W- First of all, one key thing you've mentioned, and I wanna bring it up back, the youth vote.

Youth vote seems very strong in Virginia, very strong in Georgia, not strong almost anywhere else.