New Poll Shows Strong And Growing Support For Clinton Among Battleground State Millennials

Millennials are now supporting Clinton at similar levels as Bernie Sanders

SAN FRANCISCO – Today, NextGen Climate released a battleground state poll of millennials showing a sharp upward trend in Hillary Clinton’s vote share and popularity among millennials. In a four-way race, Clinton now wins 55 percent of millennial likely voters, representing a clear improvement from the 48 percent and 43 percent vote share she held in August and July, respectively. Clinton now leads Donald Trump by 28 points among millennials.

“Today’s poll further confirms what NextGen Climate has been seeing on the ground for months. Young people are drawn to candidates who have plans to address the issues they are most passionate about—like climate change, income inequality, education, and racial and gender equality. As groups like NextGen Climate reach out to these people and talk to them about Hillary Clinton’s leadership on these issues, young voters overwhelmingly support her,” said NextGen Climate President Tom Steyer.

After several weeks of increased focus on climate change and other issues important to millennials, Clinton is now running as strongly among millennials as Sen. Bernie Sanders, who wins 56 percent of the vote in a hypothetical four-way race in which he is the Democratic nominee. Additionally, a mere eight percent of respondents are now “Sanders Holdouts”—millennials who support Bernie Sanders for President on a hypothetical ballot but would not vote for Hillary Clinton. This is down from 20 percent in July and 15 percent in August, and is nearly matched by the seven percent who support Clinton but not Sanders.

Views of Donald Trump remain strongly negative, with 71 percent of millennial likely voters polled viewing him unfavorably, including 59 percent who view him very unfavorably.  

The poll released today was conducted by Global Strategy Group. 1,217 millennials aged 18-34 were surveyed between October 1st and 9th, 2016 across 11 battleground states—Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Iowa, North Carolina, New hampshire, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Wisconsin.