Jim McLaughlin to Newsmax: Trump’s Support Among Gen Z No Shock

Pollster Jim McLaughlin told Newsmax on Monday that it’s not surprising President Donald Trump has a high approval rating among a group of voters who typically lean toward Democrats.

An AtlasIntel poll in February showed Trump with a 52.7% approval rating among Generation Z voters, those aged 18 to 29. Although that dipped to 41.8% in AtlasIntel’s latest poll, released March 17, it shows the progress Trump made in attracting younger voters.

“All these things that the Republicans have been talking about for decades now, whether it was during the [George W.] Bush presidency and even going back to Ronald Reagan, Donald Trump is the first one who’s actually doing all this stuff,” McLaughlin told “The Chris Salcedo Show.” “You look at what he’s done to the border in basically nine weeks, he’s basically solved the immigration problem.

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