Young Americans: Most see Trump as illegitimate president

[workinclasszero]

Young Americans: Most see Trump as illegitimate president

WASHINGTON (AP) — Jermaine Anderson keeps going back to the same memory of Donald Trump, then a candidate for president of the United States, referring to some Mexican immigrants as rapists and murderers.

"You can't be saying that (if) you're the president," says Anderson, a 21-year-old student from Coconut Creek, Florida.

That Trump is undeniably the nation's 45th president doesn't sit easily with young Americans like Anderson who are the nation's increasingly diverse electorate of the future, according to a new poll. A majority of young adults — 57 percent — see Trump's presidency as illegitimate, including about three-quarters of blacks and large majorities of Latinos and Asians, the GenForward poll found.

GenForward is a poll of adults age 18 to 30 conducted by the Black Youth Project at the University of Chicago with The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.

A slim majority of young whites in the poll, 53 percent, consider Trump a legitimate president, but even among that group 55 percent disapprove of the job he's doing, according to the survey.

https://apnews.com/d0885decf746477a8101019788d2e925?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=AP_Politics

[Wounded Bear]

1. Did they vote?

and for whom?

[workinclasszero]

3. Probably not

Some quoted in the article that did vote said they had no choice but to vote for the pussy grabber in chief.

I hope they enjoy the shit sandwich he's gonna give them!

[Calculating]

2. Well he is illegitmate

By the popular vote. He's only president due to the monstrosity known as the EC which was only created as a compromise with slave holding states hundreds of years ago. I will never consider a president who lost the popular vote to be legitimate.

[JHB]

5. The conservative term for this is "only technically president"...

...they were quite clear about it in 1992.

They pointed to the fact that the guy who got a majority in the electoral college FAILED to get a majority of the popular vote, so he had no mandate and nothing he did could have the imprimatur of "the will of the people". It was conservative's' right, nay, their duty, to harry this pretender at all turns until a rightful government could be properly elected.

And Bill didn't even have any other candidates who got more of the popular vote than him!

[MineralMan]

4. And, yet, 53% consider him a legitimate President.

I wonder how 21-year-old Jermaine Anderson voted in November. Did anyone ask him that question? It turns out that Trump won a majority of votes from younger voters.

Apparently there is no progressive young voter bloc, really. They seem to reflect the general population, overall.

But, I'd be interested in how this "spokesperson" voted.

[Jonny Appleseed]

6. I'd like to see the numbers for 14-17 year olds and 16-17 year olds

That's the relevant voting block here if we aspire to swing the house and Senate.