Tyler Delaney, Tyler Witzgall, John Fitzpatrick, Michael Leary, Ian Pomfret, and Artemius Gehring at Saint Anselm College, New Hampshire. REUTERS/Aleksandra Michalska
"One of my things with Trump was it was going to be ‘America First.’ That was the rhetoric he was running on.” said Michael Leary, who cast his first presidential ballot for Trump in 2024.
US strikes on Iran are putting Trump's relationship with the young male voters who backed him in 2024 to the test.
A swift end to the conflict could help Trump look like a decisive commander-in-chief, but a drawn-out war risks alienating the young men who helped fuel his 2024 resurgence.
Recent polling already shows those gains have evaporated: just 33% of men aged 18–29 approved of Trump's White House performance in February, down from 43% the year before.
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