Millennials are wrong: Hillary is more war-prone than Trump

Millennials are a divided generation; those over 30 remember the world before the war on terror, while younger millennials have a hard time remembering when the nation was not at war. Generation Y is typically anti-war, and these voters gravitate towards candidates who run against a hawkish foreign policy — from Ron Paul to Barack Obama — but 2016 could end that tradition.

An Economist/YouGov poll released on Wednesday found that millennials were split; 48 percent planned to vote for Hillary Clinton, 24 percent for Trump, 11 percent said they’ll cast their ballot for Gary Johnson, and another 4 percent said Jill Stein.

According to that poll, most millennials supporting Clinton were doing so to vote against Trump. Fifty-eight percent were against the Republican billionaire, while only 39 percent were for the Democratic nominee.

Yes, part of that is based on rhetoric and demeanor — Trump hasn’t always been the best at selling himself. It also has a great deal to do with policy; millennials believe the Republican nominee will get involved in another war, and they don’t believe Clinton is nearly as big of a hawk.

In that same poll, 62 percent of millennials believed that Trump would get the U.S. involved in another war, while only 45 percent believed the same about Clinton.