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Young Voters Say They Are Turning Their Backs on Trump and His Party

The New York Times reports that young men who moved toward Trump in twenty twenty-four are now swinging back; the pollsters seem surprised again.

On air: Hank Ledger on BBN Newsroom
Published 10:47 AM ET, Friday, October 16, 2026

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First reported by The New York Times: “Young Voters Say They Are Turning Their Backs on Trump and His Party”.
Covered on BBN on Friday, October 16, 2026, at 10:47 AM ET on BBN Newsroom, by Hank Ledger.
Topics: Trump.

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Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe New York Times reports that young voters, especially men, who swung toward Trump in twenty twenty-four, now say they are swinging back.
Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorCornelius Raddatz advises on this for a living.
Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorMr. Raddatz, you bill four thousand dollars an hour. So what is happening with young voters?
Cornelius RaddatzHank, I'll give you the headline for free.
Cornelius RaddatzThey changed their minds. That was eleven hundred dollars, by the way, I'll invoice the network.
Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThey changed their minds is the entire finding?
Cornelius RaddatzOh, it's layered. We call it the Pendulum Framework. Voters move in one direction, and then, critically, they can move in the other.
Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThat's just a pendulum.
Cornelius RaddatzA pendulum with a logo, Hank. As I told the other side, a client, a former client, the logo is where the value lives.
Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe other side. So you advised both campaigns the last time young voters swung, and you sent each of them a bill?
Cornelius RaddatzI advised the situation. The situation happened to have two addresses. And I clicked the stopwatch on both of them, I'm proud to say.
Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorBoth addresses. And both got the same advice, which was that the young will swing.
Cornelius RaddatzDifferent fonts. The font is where the margin lives.
Cornelius RaddatzAnd that's before I even get to the part where they swing back again in two years.
Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorAgain.
Cornelius RaddatzIt's a pendulum, Hank. I'm already booking both sides for the next one. The retainer pays for itself.
Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThank you for joining us, Mr. Raddatz.
Cornelius RaddatzOf course. Click. That thank-you was four hundred dollars, and I accept cash or either party.

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