Poll: Clinton struggles to make inroads with young Americans

Poll: Clinton struggles to make inroads with young Americans | iNFOnews.ca
In this July 8,2016, photo, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks at the African Methodist Episcopal church national convention in Philadelphia. Clinton is struggling to make inroads among young Americans who overwhelmingly supported Bernie Sanders during the Democratic presidential primary, a worrisome sign as she tries to reassemble the coalition that twice propelled Barack Obama into the White House. GenForward is a survey conducted by the Black Youth Project at the University of Chicago with the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

WASHINGTON – Hillary Clinton is struggling to make inroads among young Americans who overwhelmingly supported Bernie Sanders during the Democratic presidential primary, a worrisome sign as she tries to reassemble the coalition that twice propelled Barack Obama into the White House.

A new GenForward poll of adults ages 18 to 30 finds that opinions of Clinton among young Americans vary by race and ethnicity. The majority of the nation’s younger blacks and Asian-Americans have a favourable impression of Clinton, but the presumptive Democratic nominee struggles with whites and Hispanics.

Just 26 per cent of young whites and 49 per cent of Hispanics have a positive opinion of Clinton.

GenForward is a survey by the Black Youth Project at the University of Chicago with the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.

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