How Republicans Lost Young Men in Two Years — and the Map Back

In 2024 they powered Trump's comeback. On Tuesday, young men swung hard to Democrats. The new numbers show where the coalition cracked, and where it still holds.

By Clara Hughes

Two years ago, young men were the surprise engine of President Trump’s return to the White House. On Tuesday, they went the other way. According to an analysis by CIRCLE, the youth-voting research center at Tufts University, young men backed Trump 56% to 42% over Kamala Harris in 2024, based on AP VoteCast data. In this year’s midterms, 59% of young men supported a Democratic House candidate and 37% a Republican. That is one of the sharpest reversals of the 2026 election. It did not happen by accident, and it is not irreversible. Keep reading with Altas Premium. Below: the breakdown by race, education and geography, the important caveats in the data, what