Will #NeverTrump young Republicans vote third-party?

After decisively winning three out of the five Republican presidential primaries on March 15, the likelihood of Donald Trump becoming the 2016 GOP nominee is looking more probable than ever. However, an anti-Trump movement has been growing within the Republican Party, prompting Mitt Romney to speak out against the front-runner, several PACs to air ads attacking his character, and hashtags like #NeverTrump and #MakeDonaldDrumfAgain to trend on Twitter.

Is it likely then that anti-Trump Republicans will either vote Democratic or not vote at all should he secure the nomination?

A recent USA Today/Rock the Vote poll shows that millennials overwhelmingly do not like Trump. In fact, the poll even suggests that Donald Trump could be the “way for Hillary Clinton to solve her generation gap,” noting that while Clinton is still losing to her opponent Bernie Sanders amongst millennials, numbers show that voters under 35 would choose her over Trump in the general election by 52 percent to 19 percent.

To add fuel to the fire, a campaign ad from 1964 entitled Confessions of a Republican recently resurfaced on Facebook, and it draws striking similarities to the current 2016 political climate.

“I certainly don’t feel guilty about being a Republican. I’ve always been a Republican,” says a man in the ad. “But when it comes to Senator Goldwater, now it seems to me we’re up against a very different kind of man. This man scares me.”
 
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