Overview
- Harvard Youth Poll reports President Trump at 32% approval among 18- to 29-year-olds, with young men favoring Democratic control of Congress by 12 points.
- YouGov and the Young Men’s Research Project find younger Gen Z men born 2002–2007 especially resistant to key Trump agenda items such as ICE crackdowns, ending vaccine requirements, and unilateral federal firings.
- Yale’s fall youth survey records a shift to broad disapproval of the president compared with its spring reading.
- A University of Chicago poll conducted through November shows nearly 60% of combined Gen Z and millennial respondents disapprove of Trump, a six-point drop in his favorability versus last year.
- Harvard’s John Della Volpe says young Americans view core institutions as unstable or unresponsive, while separate Economist/YouGov data shows Trump’s net approval among 18-29 improved from October to November but remains deeply negative.