{"id":136864,"date":"2025-05-27T21:00:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T21:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/136864\/"},"modified":"2025-05-27T21:00:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T21:00:09","slug":"how-young-voters-helped-to-put-trump-in-the-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/136864\/","title":{"rendered":"How young voters helped to put Trump in the White House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-component=\"paragraph\" class=\"css-1l5amll e1y9q0ei0\">THE 2024 election unfolded like a political thriller, replete with a last-minute candidate change, backroom deals, a cover-up, assassination attempts and ultimately the triumphant return of a convicted felon. But amidst the spectacle, a quieter transformation unfolded. For the first time, millennials and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/leaders\/2024\/04\/18\/reasons-to-be-cheerful-about-generation-z\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gen Z<\/a>, people born between 1981 and 2006, comprised a plurality of the electorate, and their drift towards <a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/interactive\/trump-approval-tracker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a> shaped the outcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THE 2024 election unfolded like a political thriller, replete with a last-minute candidate change, backroom deals, a cover-up,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136865,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[32,2175,49,978,659,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-136864","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-kamala-harris","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-us","12":"tag-usa","13":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114581813569792782","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}