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College Vote Confidential

Interviewing college students on a swing state tour through the South, a couple themes emerged among the voters who may decide the election: Young women are fired up for Kamala, Black men are Trump-curious, and “Brat summer” is definitely over.

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In my conversations with Gen Z voters of all stripes—men, women, Democrat, Republican, Black, white, Latino, and Asian—Harris’s biggest challenge right now is trust. Photo: Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images
Peter Hamby
October 15, 2024

Last week, Democrats began their ritualistic October panic attack about the election, a chronic illness defined by symptoms like tightening polls, anonymous sniping in the press about tactics and travel schedules, and preemptive finger-pointing about messaging decisions—all of it punctuated by Tim Walz not firing a single shot during his pheasant hunt photo-op. My colleague John Heilemann distilled the anxiety-inducing dynamics in his newsletter yesterday, which you can read here if you missed it.