Exit polls show that young people broke toward Trump significantly compared to 2020. A recent Pew Research study revealed that nearly 40% of young people get their news from social influencers, and that many of these influencers lean conservative. Your assessment has a great deal of merit.
A lot of people just don't get their news from the mainstream media anymore. So much of it now is taken from sites on the internet, largely accessed through our phones. The political right has been investing in online "alternative" news for years. Moderates and left leaning blogs and podcasts and Tik-Toks, etc, etc, are there, but not in the numbers and popularity they need to be to compete in the vast online independent news media environment.
Exit polls show that young people broke toward Trump significantly compared to 2020. A recent Pew Research study revealed that nearly 40% of young people get their news from social influencers, and that many of these influencers lean conservative. Your assessment has a great deal of merit.
A lot of people just don't get their news from the mainstream media anymore. So much of it now is taken from sites on the internet, largely accessed through our phones. The political right has been investing in online "alternative" news for years. Moderates and left leaning blogs and podcasts and Tik-Toks, etc, etc, are there, but not in the numbers and popularity they need to be to compete in the vast online independent news media environment.