Young voters are split about watching presidential debate

About this episode

The episode discusses young voters' mixed feelings about watching the Trump-Harris presidential debate.

Alexa D'Amato reports for WLIW-FM from the presidential debate in Philadelphia. Young voters are split about watching the Trump-Harris debate and new polling by the New York Times and Siena College supports this. Freshman Hope Galloway gave her predictions for the candidates face off. I believe there's going to be a lot of personal attacks involved, which I'm not super excited to hear. But I believe that some majority will come out of it and hopefully we'll get some material that's at least a little bit televised. While freshman Willow Arnold says the debate falls on her birthday. I didn't really think about it that hard because it's my birthday, so I kind of don't want that to be ruined. He can ruin any vibe, anything. Like when people bring up, like politics and stuff like that. But other students D'Amato spoke to say they will be closely watching the Trump Harris debate to learn more about the candidates positions on the economy and border security. *** Michael Dent reports for WLIW-FM from the presidential debate in Philadelphia. It's not clear how many college students plan to watch the Trump-Harris debate. Take a listen to some Hofstra students' on following politics. I…

People in this episode

Host: Alexa D'Amato

Guests: Hope Galloway, Willow Arnold

Topics covered

• young voters
• presidential debate
• politics
• Trump
• Harris
• polling
• college students

Keywords

• young voters
• presidential debate
• Trump
• Harris
• polling
• college students
• politics

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: WLIW-FM, New York Times, Siena College

Places: Philadelphia

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