MSNBC is shocked to learn there are Millennials who are more interested in merit and principles than they are in identity politics.
Tamron Hall visited with several “randomly selected” young voters in New Hampshire Thursday night and was stunned to learn the female voters aren’t falling over themselves to support Hillary Clinton.
Hall said she wasn’t surprised to hear from the college students that they support Bernie Sanders over Clinton because they’re “looking at the world through an optimistic lens that a lot of us can identify with.”
“The big headline for me in that randomly selected group of people: the young women there did not care that Hillary Clinton could be the first woman president,” Hall said as Jansing interjected, “That’s crazy to me!”
Hall continued, “In fact some of them were offended when she brought the line up pointing to the fact that ‘how could I be establishment, I’m a woman running for president.'”
“I also am a woman,” one voter said, “I also face discrimination as being a woman. Her feminism does not represent my feminism and I think that’s really important to differentiate that.”
Another added, “I think you have to realize that everybody’s human and you have to go for who has the best ideals and just because she’s a woman doesn’t necessarily make her the best candidate.”
A Marist Institute for Public Opinion poll finds 76% young likely Democratic voters in New Hampshire support Sanders over Clinton. Moreover, 72% of voters under 45 side with the socialist. Sanders even has a 29-point lead over Clinton among young women.
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