Voters under 30 in a dozen states – including Florida – are increasingly angry with Donald Trump's As newly released poll results show, the former presidential candidate ran for office in the wake of incriminating court rulings against him.

Seventy-four percent of voters between the ages of 18 and 29 in Florida, Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia and Wisconsin believe that Trump, as a convicted felon, should not be allowed near the White House again.

According to a Washington-based public research firm, this includes a majority of Democrats, Republicans and independents The Generation Labwhich surveyed 1,080 young voters in early June, Voters of tomorrowa Generation Z-led progressive voter turnout organization.

The poll's margin of error, which is three percentage points, found that 74 percent of Floridians agreed that convicted felons should be barred from running for president.

Notably, the poll was conducted before the first presidential debate in 2024, which left many worried about the President Joe Biden's mental fitness for the job. National polls have since shifted in Trump's favor, with the former president extending his lead to 6 percentage points. New York Times/Siena College poll published on Wednesday.

The Generation Lab poll, conducted June 2-7, found that 57% of respondents in 12 states supported Trump following his conviction on 34 charges of falsifying business documents to cover up his affair with a porn actress before the 2016 election.

In Florida, the gap was even wider. 62 percent of respondents said their opinion of Trump had worsened “more” or “much more” in retrospect. 29 percent said the verdict had not changed their opinion, and 3 percent viewed him even more positively.

Likewise, 53% of young voters in the 12 states said that a jury’s finding that Trump was liable for sexual abuse and defamation — Offences for which he was sentenced to pay more than 88 million US dollars of damages – was also a big minus.

Sixty-three percent of Floridians under 30 agreed with them. Only 5 percent of respondents in all 12 states and just 2 percent in Florida said they liked Trump more after the jury's verdict.

An overwhelming share of young voters also reject Trump’s repeated claims that the justice system is “manipulated“ against him. Only 16% of all survey participants agreed with him, compared to 52% who thought the verdict was fair.

In Florida alone, 22 percent of young voters said the justice system had treated the former president unfairly. 54 percent said no. The rest said they did not know.

As expected, Democrats were harsher on Trump. For example, when asked the above question, 82 percent of Democrats said they believed the convictions were not rigged, compared to 51 percent of independents and 37 percent of Republicans who said so. At the same time, only 5 percent of Democrats said they believed Trump was biased in the prosecutorial and judicial system. Thirteen percent of independents and 15 percent of Republicans agreed.

The Generation Lab polls also suggest that the ground Biden lost in voter sentiment after last week’s debate can still be regained and expanded. When asked whether Trump’s belief that he paid Daniels hush money would affect their likelihood of voting for Biden, 25% of young voters in all 12 states said they would be more motivated to vote for him.

This increase was most pronounced among Democrats (40 percent more likely), but a significant share of independents and Republicans – 23 percent and 11 percent, respectively – also expressed a greater willingness to vote for the incumbent.

Sunshine State figures viewed by Florida Politics, which did not include a party breakdown, show that 29% of respondents said they were more likely to vote for Biden, while 13% said they were even less inclined to support him.

The largest proportion, 58%, said that the convictions had no impact on their loyalty or that they did not know what they thought about it.

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