'If politicians step up right now to help students who are homeless, hungry, dropping classes, or being pushed out of college entirely, they stand a chance of keeping their jobs' - MaxSLubin of RiseFreeOrg
in the primaries compared to past cycles, suggesting it will rise even higher in the general election.
And while the youth vote matters everywhere, it can have that much more impact in key battleground states. There are approximately 1.2 million college students registered to vote in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin — states which President Donald Trump narrowly won by a combinedin 2016. These swing states helped decide the last general election, which means that winning over the college student voters who vote there is key for any 2020 candidate, let alone the president.
And those voters are among the most impacted by the response to COVID-19, and among the most hungry for change. Alreadyhave asked all students to leave with little notice, cut back on-campus jobs, and left students stranded with nowhere to go and no way of getting there. Yet students are also suffering in part as a result of how President Trump has handled the response to this pandemic.
But where some leaders are falling short, others are stepping up. In Congress, Senator Patty Murray introduced legislation to provide $1.2 billion in emergency financial aid to students displaced by this crisis. Our team at
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