Fall 2025 Toplines
Results from survey of 3,426 registered voters, including 1,707 voters aged 18-34, enabling a comparison of young voters to the electorate as a whole. Full results available here.
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Young Voters Turn on Trump
Younger voters now overwhelmingly disapprove of Trump’s job performance—a stark shift from what we found in the spring.
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Vance, Newsom Lead Respective 2028 primaries
Newsom, Vance lead respective 2028 primaries—but a majority of Republicans would vote for Donald Trump in the GOP primary if he ran for a third term.
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The Big Beautiful Bill is Extremely Unpopular
Head-to-head testing of 48 messages from elected officials about the One Big Beautiful Bill finds that Democrats’ messaging is more persuasive to voters than the GOP’s.
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The Youngest Voters Have Slightly More Traditionalist Views on Gender
Voters are generally egalitarian in their views on gender roles, but the youngest voters are slightly more likely to hold traditionalist views.
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Antisemitic Views, Anti-Israel Stances More Common Among Young People
Younger voters are much more likely to hold anti-Israel views than older voters, and also much more likely to agree with antisemitic stereotypes.
About the Poll
The Yale Youth Poll surveyed an online sample of 3,426 registered voters from October 29 to November 11, 2025, with an under-35 oversample of 1,706. The survey was conducted in English, and its post-weighting 95% CI margin of error is ±1.7 percentage points for the full sample and ±2.4 percentage points for the youth sample; a full breakdown of MOE by demographic group can be found here. Full toplines and crosstabs can be found here. A full list of questions can be found here.
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