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The Worst News for Trump in the Marist Poll

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We all know that the GOP isn’t known as the party of the young, but yesterday’s Marist poll has Trump finishing fourth amongst voters under 30 — and it’s not even a close race for fourth place. Hillary has 41 percent of the youth vote, Gary Johnson has 23 percent, Jill Stein has 16 percent, and Trump is stuck with a whopping nine percent.

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It’s one poll. It’s potentially an outlier. But . . . Wow. 

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David French — David French is a senior writer for National Review, a senior fellow at the National Review Institute, and a veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

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