Exit polling in 2016 found lower turnout among the youngest American voters, along with an uptick in support for third-party candidates. Sarah Audelo, who served as Clinton’s millennial vote director in 2016 and now leads Alliance for Youth Action, which signed the Wednesday letter, said young people are “issues-first” voters disenchanted by both parties. For them, she said, being “anti-Trump has never been enough” to beat him.
Audelo, who said Clinton’s campaign leadership “decided not to invest in fighting for young people’s votes in the primary,” is worried that Biden has not done enough to understand and engage them this time around.
“Young people want their votes to be fought for like anybody else,” she said. “He needs to be talking about the issues in a different way.”
Those younger Sanders supporters are more likely than the average Democrat to say the economy is their top issue (31 percent to 24 percent), though they’re roughly as likely to prioritize health care (29 percent to 32 percent).
Biden has already made overtures to the more progressive wing of the party within the past month or so, taking up a tuition-free college plan backed by Sanders and a bankruptcy plan proposed by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.). On Thursday, he embraced a student debt forgiveness plan and announced he’s developing a pitch to expand Medicare by lowering the eligibility age.
But those leftward steps may not be enough without Sanders’ full backing. The Vermont independent, who has not endorsed Biden, signaled to supporters in a video announcing the end of his campaign that he is seeking to retain influence on the party’s platform.
“You saw him signaling in a big way during that livestream that he’s going to do what he can to make sure Trump is out of office, but it’s going to take many others to engage to make sure we have the turnout that’s necessary,” Audelo said.
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