It’s no secret that Joe Biden has a youth problem. He knows it, too. The 80-year old president, I’m told, often brings up his weakness among younger voters in meetings, as he works to nurture the coalition that elected him to the White House in 2020. Biden won about 60 percent of voters between the ages of 18 and 29 in 2020, but as he pivots to re-election, his approval rating with that age group is currently at a dismal 29 percent. Yes, Democrats staved off losses in last year’s midterms thanks to big youth margins in key states, offsetting Republican gains with older and white voters. But experts in youth voting patterns mostly attribute that 2022 turnout to anger over the Dobbs decision that overturned federal abortion protections, and ongoing animosity toward the MAGA-branded Republican politicians among Gen Z and younger millennials. Enthusiasm for the Democratic Party and its aging leaders were not really part of the equation.