Emhoff to young men: Trump ‘not your friend’

Second gentleman Doug Emhoff has a message for young male voters: Former President Trump is “not your friend.”

Emhoff joined MSNBC’s Symone Sanders on Sunday and was asked about the historic gender gap among voters choosing Trump and Vice President Harris.

Polling shows younger male voters are more likely to say they are voting for Trump, while Harris, Emhoff's wife, earns more support from younger female voters.

The second gentleman said Trump is appealing to younger male voters by going on podcasts and appearing with wrestling icons, but called it “all hustle.”

“I’m trying to implore young men in particular to do the research. He’s not your friend,” Emhoff said. “You know the policies that he’s talking about will not help them in the economy. The policies he’s talking about have nothing to do with them.”

John Della Volpe, director of polling at the Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics, argued last month that the Trump campaign’s focus on young men could jeopardize Democrats’ hold on the demographic and change the electoral calculus going forward.

Unlike other Republican presidential nominees, Trump is zeroing in on young men. If it’s effective, Della Volpe argued, the effort could “peel enough away” from the Democratic Party and change electoral math for future campaign cycles.

Both the Harris and Trump campaigns are making last-ditch appeals to their critical voting blocs, as polling both nationally and in battleground states indicate it's going to be a tight race.

According to The Hill/Decision Desk HQ's polling average, Trump and Harris are locked in a dead tie, each earning 48.3 percent support nationally.  

The Hill has reached out to the Trump campaign for comment.