Donald Trump Won Among Young Men. Why?

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, he did so for Donald Trump.Despite his personal beliefs, he says that Trump talks about the American people in a way that resonates with him, without—in his opinion—faulting him for his gender and sexual orientation.“I’m a straight white man, and I feel like we take the blame for a lot of things,” Sumners says.“Of course there are bad guys,” he adds, insisting he’s not one of them just because he voted for Trump.

But what appealed to him about Donald Trump was that “his campaign was not coming after us. He was highlighting the American people, which we are.

It doesn’t matter what color you are, what you may identify as. Since I wasn’t excluded, I resonated with it.”Economics also played a part—Sumner’s mother lost her home during Joe Biden’s presidency (though he says she actually voted for , and he’s struggled to afford his own rent.

He appreciates Trump’s “emphasis on the economy and building America up again.”But one of the biggest issues for him has been the way men in general are assumed to be inherently bad people because of their politics or their gender.“It’s a touchy subject,” he admits. “The people I’ve spoken to who for Harris are constantly saying that we're racist, that we're misogynistic, that, you know, we're transphobic.