It comes as no surprise that millennials overwhelmingly voted for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election, but it wasn’t because they identified as Democrats or with Clinton as a candidate, panelists at a discussion in Washington on the 2016 millennial vote said Thursday.
“Young people who cast ballots in 2016 were more likely to identify as liberal than in recent elections, but they were less likely to identify as Democrats,” said Abby Kiesa, a political scientist at Tufts University. “This shift suggests that young people increasingly embrace the liberal ideology but do not necessarily see the Democratic Party as an institution that can represent and advance those ideas.”...
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