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Analysis | Power Up: Biden scores record high approval rating among young voters, according to new poll

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This article was published more than&nbsp;1 year agoCommentGift Sharewith Tobi RajiIt's Friday. We made it. It's – hope everyone can get a little fresh air this weekend. ; thanks for waking up with us. See you on Monday.&nbsp;‘THE BOY NEXT DOOR PHENOMENON’: Young Americans are more optimistic about the future and far more approving of U.S. leadership under President Biden than during ex-president Donald Trump's tenure, according to a new Harvard Youth Poll released on Friday.&nbsp;Biden has hit the highest favorability rating — 63 percent — among college students who are registered voters of any president in the youth poll's 21-year history, according to the poll.&nbsp;Sitting at an overall 59 percent approval rating with those surveyed, Biden's popularity among young voters also marks a dramatic U-turn for the 78-year-old president: at this time last year, only 34 percent of all young adults viewed Biden favorably, per the spring 2020 Read the full resultsAdvertisementAnother striking development: young Americans are more hopeful about the future of America than they were in the fall of 2017 – almost a year after former president Trump took office. Only 31 percent of young Americans were hopeful about the future of America at the time and 67 percent were fearful.&nbsp;Four years later, 56 percent of young Americans are more optimistic – especially young people of color.&nbsp;Advertisement🚨: “I'd be very concerned about the poll if I was Jack Dorsey or Facebook," Della Volpe told Power Up. “Facebook and Twitter are ranked as the the least trusted institutions.”As the decides whether to reverse a ban on former President Trump's Facebook account, it's worth noting that 58 percent of young Americans believe that political leaders should be held to stricter standards on social media than ordinary citizens. And 52 percent believe that Twitter's permanent ban on Trump's account was necessary.AdvertisementMORE NUMBERS: Most Americans support greater police scrutiny as discrimination concerns persist, according toa new Washington Post-ABC News poll out this morning. The poll was conducted Sunday through Wednesday, overlapping with the guilty verdict against Chauvin was delivered (late in the day).“Six in 10 Americans say the country should do more to hold police accountable for mistreatment of Black people, far outpacing concerns about those measures interfering with how law enforcement does its job, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll,” our colleagues Scott Clement and Emily Guskin The full numbers areBIDEN SPELLS OUT CLIMATE GOAL:&nbsp;“In one of the most surreal summit meetings ever, President Biden on Thursday hosted more than 40 world leaders in a bid to restore the United States’s damaged diplomatic reputation and to rally nations around the globe to make deeper cuts to greenhouse gas emissions,” .&nbsp;AdvertisementBiden also pledged to “spend $5.7 billion annually helping developing nations deal with climate change and propel clean energy,”&nbsp;.&nbsp;REPUBLICANS UNVEIL $568 BILLION COUNTEROFFER:&nbsp;“Senate Republicans on Thursday offered an early counterproposal in the nascent Washington debate over improving the country’s aging infrastructure, endorsing roughly $568 billion in new spending that could be financed through higher fees on some drivers,” .&nbsp;DC STATEHOOD BILL PASSES HOUSE, HEADS TO SENATE:&nbsp;“For the second time in history, the House passed legislation Thursday to make the District of Columbia the nation’s 51st state, bolstering momentum for a once-illusory goal that has become a pivotal tenet of the Democratic Party’s voting rights platform,” . The bill now heads to the Senate, where the “political odds remain formidable.”&nbsp;AdvertisementHATE CRIME BILL FLIES THROUGH SENATE:&nbsp;“The Senate overwhelmingly passed legislation Thursday designed to more forcefully investigate hate crimes, particularly those against Asian Americans after the March 16 shootings at three Atlanta spas and a wave of violence following the spread of the coronavirus from China last year,” . “The vote was 94 to 1. Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) was the lone no vote.”PASSED: Today, the US Senate rejects anti-Asian hate.This historic, bipartisan vote on the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act is a powerful message of solidarity to our AAPI community. Now, I urge the House to swiftly pass this legislation so President Biden can sign it into law. — Senator Mazie Hirono (@maziehirono)SEARCHING FOR THE ‘BIDEN DEPRESSION’:&nbsp;“Throughout last year’s campaign, President Donald Trump issued a series of increasingly dark predictions about what would happen if Biden were elected,” .&nbsp;HUD SECRETARY REVERSES ANOTHER TRUMP-ERA PROPOSAL:&nbsp;“Housing Secretary Marcia L. Fudge announced Thursday the withdrawal of a Trump-era proposal to allow federally funded homeless shelters to exclude transgender people by accommodating only people whose sex assigned at birth matches those served by single-sex homeless shelters,” .WEEKEND REEEADS:&nbsp;TO INFINITY AND BEYOND 🚀: SpaceX another crew of astronauts to the International Space Station this morning."Glad to be back in space for all of us." - . 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This article was published more than&nbsp;1 year agoCommentGift Sharewith Tobi RajiIt's Friday. We made it. It's – hope everyone can get a little fresh air this weekend. ; thanks for waking up with us. See you on Monday.&nbsp;‘THE BOY NEXT DOOR PHENOMENON’: Young Americans are more optimistic about the future and far more approving of U.S. leadership under President Biden than during ex-president Donald Trump's tenure, according to a new Harvard Youth Poll released on Friday.&nbsp;Biden has hit the highest favorability rating — 63 percent — among college students who are registered voters...

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