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    Young voters don't give Biden credit for passing the biggest climate bill in history

    by Noah Bierman, Los Angeles Times May 09, 2024 5 minutes
    U.S. President Joe Biden speaks on Earth Day at Prince William Forest Park on April 22, 2024, in Triangle, Virginia. Bernie Sanders, Edward Markey, and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, announced a seven billion dollar "Solar For All" program with the Environmental Protection Agency and an American Climate Corps initiative, while commemorating the 54th anniversary...

    President Joe Biden spent his Earth Day in a national forest this year with an explicit pitch to young people: a climate jobs corps intended to excite Gen Z the way John F. Kennedy's Peace Corps inspired their grandparents.

    Biden took a selfie with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the progressive New York Democrat, to remind voters that he was the first president to truly embrace elements of her Green New Deal, signing a signature $369-billion spending package in 2022 — the biggest climate bill in American history — to ignite the renewable energy revolution.

    But Biden isn't reaping the political benefits. His lead over former President Trump among voters younger than 30 is down since 2020 — when he won that group by 24 percentage points.

    His current lead among those younger voters is somewhere between the single digits and high teens, according to conducted in March found Biden but found Trump voters (76%) were far more likely to say they were enthusiastic than Biden voters (44%).

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