College students and millennials strongly reject Trump. Not a good thing for the GOP future.

[pnwmom]

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trumps-turnoff-college-republican-groups/story?id=41156215

For the first time in 128 years, the Harvard Republican Club is refusing to endorse its party’s candidate for president.

Similarly, at Trump’s alma mater, the University of Pennsylvania, members of the student Republican organization told ABC News they also will not be supporting Donald Trump.

And, in interviews with Republican college students around the country, some say they dread their turn inside the voting booth in November where they will face the choice of voting for their party's standard-bearer or not.

Four years ago, GOP nominee Mitt Romney lost to President Obama by 5 million votes among voters under 30. This year, there are indications younger voters may show even less support for the Republican candidate.

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Kristen Soltis Anderson, a Republican pollster and ABC News contributor says Trump could be putting the GOP in a challenging position for years to come.

“Donald Trump is definitely doing serious and significant damage to the Republican Party with the millennial generation,” Anderson said. “Republicans came into this election in a tough spot with younger voters already, due to differences on issues like LGBT rights and due to the fact that the millennial generation is so racially and ethnically diverse. Republicans didn't have any room to lose more young voters, and instead nominated a candidate who seems to be fine turning these voters off in exchange for trying to run up the numbers with older voters.”

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[sinkingfeeling]

1. About time the media noticed this.

[Wounded Bear]

2. They say that like it's a bad thing....

The Repub party long gave up mainstreaming, or even trying to attract younger voters. It's about time the younger voters noticed.

[tblue37]

3. They don't mind representing a minority of Americans, because they have

gotten the process of suppressing Democratic voters and gerrymandering safe GOP districts down to a science.

[Arazi]

4. Isn't this the same for Hillary?

[pnwmom]

5. It's the OPPOSITE for Hillary.

The vast majority of Bernie supporters back her now.

A McClatchy-Marist poll released Thursday showed that if the election were held now, Trump would come in last place among voters ages 18 to 29 if the choice was between him, Democrat Hillary Clinton, Libertarian Gary Johnson and Green Party candidate Jill Stein. Only 9 percent of the millennials surveyed would support a Trump-Pence ticket compared to 41 percent who would vote for Clinton, 23 percent for Johnson and 16 percent for Stein.