Jonathan Della Volpe, polling director at Harvard Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics, voiced concern on Friday’s episode of Fast Politics with Molly Jong-Fast that Democrats may be slipping with younger voters.
Della Volpe said he worries the Democratic Party has squandered a rare opportunity in recent years to cement its connection with young Americans.
“The concern I have for Democrats is just a handful of years ago, I would say that every day that, for every thousand young people who turn 18, Molly, like 700 of them, six or 700 of them, have values aligned with the Democrat Party,” Della Volpe said. “It was like this incredible opportunity for the Democrats to kind of cement kind of their values with an emerging generation. They didn’t communicate that very well. MORE