Young voters helped Biden to victory. They may abandon him this year
by Whitney Bauck from Environment | The Guardian on (#6HNDX)
Voting bloc who supported Biden in 2020 over climate change see war in Gaza as environmental justice issue
Elise Joshi stumped for Joe Biden as a college freshman, motivated in no small part by her sense of urgency about climate change. The environmental policy student campaigned before the 2020 election as part of TikTok for Biden, in hopes of persuading other young people to show up to the polls.
The work undertaken by Joshi and her peers paid off for Democrats - youth voter turnout surged in 2020, and has been widely credited as playing a key role in propelling Biden to victory.
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