By Alex Smith, College Republican National Committee — Washington Examiner
In 2012, President Obama captured a historic majority of millennials, propelling him to a second term in the White House. In fact, if voting had started at age 30, Mitt Romney would be our president today. This means that our generation had the power to reverse the decision that the rest of the electorate made.
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Hillary Clinton has been unable to repeat that success starting with the Democratic primaries. In some states that Clinton eventually won, her opponent, Sen. Bernie Sanders, walked away with more than 80 percent of voters under the age of 30. These problems have continued in the general election as her lead over Republican presidential rival Donald Trump fell from 24 points in late August to just 5 points this month in Quinnipiac surveys.
So if you want to know why all of the sudden Clinton is writing a column on Mic and giving a speech about millennials this week — the proof is in the polling.
Fifty days from the election, Hillary is trying to butter up to millennials, writing about all the “great lessons” she’s learned from our generation.
So, as she attempts to tell us what she’s learned from our generation, I’d like to tell Hillary Clinton what her old way of thinking has taught our generation: that there’s one set of standards for ordinary Americans and another set for the powerful and connected. We know it’s well past time to throw that model out.
Just look at what we’ve seen from Secretary Clinton this campaign.
