From a candidate who has cornered the market on new lows for Republicans comes yet another new low:
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton is consolidating the support of the Millennials who fueled Bernie Sanders' challenge during the primaries, a new USA TODAY/Rock the Vote Poll finds, as Republican Donald Trump heads toward the worst showing among younger voters in modern American history.
The survey shows Clinton trouncing Trump 56%-20% among those under 35, though she has failed so far to generate the levels of enthusiasm Sanders did — and the high turn-out that can signal — among Millennials. [...]
Trump's weakness among younger voters is unprecedented, lower even than the 32% of the vote that the Gallup Organization calculates Richard Nixon received among 18-to-29-year-old voters in 1972, an era of youthful protests against the Vietnam War.
Clinton now has the support of 72 percent of Millennials who originally backed Sanders, with 11 percent supporting Trump and another 11 percent who don’t plan on voting. The survey found that half of Millennials are Democratic leaners, while only 20 percent say the same of Republicans and 17 percent identify as independents. If young voters favor Hillary Clinton by double digits, it will mark the third such presidential election in a row supporting that trend, which could cement a younger generation of voters—and a behemoth voting bloc—as Democrats for years to come.