Young Voters and Aging Political Leadership

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jul 14, 2022

A New York Times/Siena College survey found that just one percent of voters under 30 strongly approve of the way President Biden is handling his job and that a staggering 94 percent of Democrats in this age group said they wanted another candidate to run two years from now. We ask our listeners under 30 to share their thoughts about the aging political leadership within the Democratic Party.

→ Young Voters Are Fed Up With Their (Much) Older Leaders

→ The Gerontocracy of the Democratic Party Doesn’t Understand That We’re at the Brink

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