“Purely by accident - I assume it was an accident - the photographer from the newspaper got a picture of me making eye contact with Harry Truman,” Biden said to chuckles last week at the Truman Civil Rights Symposium in Washington.īiden’s campaign is relying heavily on the Democratic National Committee, which during last year’s midterms, hired campus organizers in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, Arizona and other battleground states and offered weekly youth coordinating meetings to encourage in-class contacts and “dormstorms.” The DNC sees young people as some of the most critical voters it will need to reach in 2024 and promises “significant investments” to mobilize them. Patrick’s Day parade at age 14, he appeared in a photo with President Harry S. Such efforts, however, could collide with Biden’s personal reality - like when he recalled that, while attending a St. That legislation includes provisions that the White House will embrace to argue that Biden has done more than any other president to combat climate change. His 2024 campaign plans to emphasize messages that could especially resonate with young people in the coming weeks as the anniversary of the sweeping Inflation Reduction Act approaches in mid-August.

Maintaining their support will be critical in closely contested states such as Nevada, where even small declines could prove consequential to Biden’s reelection bid.

Voters like him were a key piece of Biden’s winning 2020 coalition, which included majorities of young people as well as college graduates, women, urban and suburban voters and Black Americans. Rodriguez pointed specifically to federal COVID-19 relief payments and government spending increases on infrastructure and other social programs. “People as young as me, we’re all focusing on our day-to-day lives and he has done things to help us through that,” Rodriguez, a cook at Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, said of Biden’s support among young voters. But he’s more interested in the 80-year-old president’s accomplishments than his age. At 24, Alberto Rodriguez has grandparents younger than Joe Biden.

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