A couple of weeks back, I asked whether it was possible that Donald Trump might lose millennial voters to a third-party candidate, Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson.
Well, a new poll shows him losing young voters not just to Johnson, but also to Green Party nominee Jill Stein.
The McClatchy poll shows Trump pulling just 1 in 10 votes — 9 percent — among Americans under 30 years old. Hillary Clinton is at 41 percent, while Johnson is at 23 percent and Stein is at 16 percent. Trump is basically tied with "undecided," which is at 8 percent.
It's important to note here that, as with other subsamples of young voters, the poll did not test a large number of them — only 15 percent of the 983 registered voters that Marist College polled for McClatchy, or about 150. That means there is a very high margin of error.
But it comes on the heels of plenty of other evidence that Trump is struggling — mightily — with the youngest American voters.
A Fox News poll this week didn't include Stein, but it showed Trump and Johnson close among voters under 35 — the generally accepted definition of the millennial generation. Trump was at 23 percent, while Johnson was at 19 percent.
In early July, a Pew study that included a larger sample — and larger subsample of voters under 30 — also showed Trump and Johnson virtually tied among teens and 20-somethings.
So the complete picture that's taking shape is: Young people really don't like Trump. His favorable rating among voters under 30 in the McClatchy poll is just 13 percent, with 82 percent unfavorable (!). He does worse with them than he does among Latinos (25 percent favorable, 73 percent unfavorable) and nearly as poorly as he does among liberals (10 favorable, 88 percent unfavorable).
