• Join Puck

    Directly Supporting Authors

    A new economic model in which writers are also partners in the business.

    Personalized Subscriptions

    Customize your settings to receive the newsletters you want from the authors you follow.

    Stay in the Know

    Connect directly with Puck talent through email and exclusive events.

  • What is puck? Newsletters Authors Podcasts Events Gift Puck Careers

Kamala’s Wasted Youth

Sure, young white dudes broke for Trump. But Harris also underperformed with almost every kind of young person: young white women, young Black voters, and young Latinos.

How Kamala Harris lost the Gen Z vote
Kamala Harris’s performance among young voters was an abject disaster for Democrats and a troubling omen for the party’s political future. Photo: Kenny Holston-Pool/Getty Images
Peter Hamby
November 6, 2024

Despite the Brat Summer hype, all the clever and demure posts from KamalaHQ, and the promise of generational change, in the end it turned out that Gen Z wasn’t very interested in Kamala Harris. It became clear early enough on Tuesday evening, when the exit polls arrived and certain counties were going sideways for Democrats, that Harris was underperforming old man Joe Biden’s 2020 numbers with younger voters.