Black millennials don’t support Hillary nearly as much as older generations

Red Alert Politics was reporting on Hillary Clinton’s struggle with millennials for months before it became mainstream news, but we may not have emphasized that the Democratic nominee is disliked by all groups of Generation Y — even traditional party loyalists and young black voters.

Farai Chideya of FiveThirtyEight reported that thousands of young black voters are willing to defy half a century of tradition and vote against the Democratic Party in 2016.

Jonathan Allen, 24, from North Carolina told FiveThirtyEight that he supported Bernie Sanders in the Democratic primary, and is now leaning towards the Green Party’s Jill Stein.

He’s not the only one. When a recent Washington Post poll of all black voters is compared with a GenForward poll focusing just on millennials, there is nearly a 30-point difference between older black voters and younger black voters.

Only 60 percent of black millennials were willing to cast their vote for Clinton — keep in mind that poll was taken in early August when Clinton was riding a wave of good press from the Democratic National Convention.
 
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