Election 2024: Under-40 Voters More Open to Third-Party Vote
More than a quarter of American voters say they might vote for a third-party presidential candidate this year, and young voters are especially open to the idea.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 28% of Likely U.S. Voters say they are likely to vote for a third-party candidate in this year’s presidential election, including 12% who are Very Likely to vote third-party. Fifty-nine percent (59%) are unlikely to vote third-party, including 30% who say it’s Not At All Likely. Another 14% are not sure. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
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The survey of 1,079 U.S. Likely Voters was conducted on March 21 and 24-25, 2024 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research.
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