With the 2024 presidential election just around the corner, Americans are gearing up for a tense presidential rematch.
In his analysis of recent polls, CNN’s Harry Enten said surveys from New York Times/Siena College, CBS/YouGov, Fox News and The Wall Street Journal all gave Donald Trump “a higher percentage of the vote than Biden by margins ranging from 2 to 4 points.”
In an apparent attempt to stem the erosion of support among voters, President Biden has been engaging with younger voters as witnessed in his recent debut on TikTok. The move, which coincided with the Super Bowl, signaled a potential strategic shift in Biden’s re-election campaign.
In September, the White House addressed young people via a fact sheet that listed issues facing the fastest-growing demographic in the country. These included student debt and gun violence, environmental concerns and unresolved cannabis reform. The introduction to the “Addressing a Failed Approach to Marijuana” section of the fact sheet highlighted the unjust outcomes of marijuana criminalization as well as Biden’s 2022 pardon of federal cannabis prisoners, which impacted some 6,500 individuals with prior convictions for simple weed possession.
Both Biden and his Republican challenger could take on cannabis reform as a way to attract younger voters and potentially boost the turnout of Americans under 30, as evidenced by the popularity of last week’s post on Biden’s official X …