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Yahoo
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
‘It's never been a better time to date as a conservative': Meet the NYC singles looking for the ‘right' stuff — and to Make America Hot Again
The hottest pickup line in singles bars today? 'Hi, I'm MAGA.' No longer is it a liability to be an out-of-the-closet Republican — it's actually a calling card, young singles told The Post. Comely conservatives are simply looking for a mate to MAGA with — and they're breaking through in big, blue cities, at right-wing ragers, on targeted dating apps and at Trump rallies. 'It's never been a better time to date as a conservative,' crowed CJ Pearson, co-chair of the GOP Youth Advisory Council, who punched back against a January New York magazine piece smearing his diverse DC inauguration party as all-white. 'Being conservative right now is the coolest it's ever been,' added the single DC political advisor, who boasted that women want to be with a guy who's a 'provider and who they feel safe around.' Good luck finding that in a guy 'with pronouns in his bio,' he added. For MAGA singles looking for love, like Raquel Debono, 'hotness is a bipartisan issue.' That's why she founded Make America Hot Again, a cheeky movement throwing parties for young conservatives around NYC at hot spots like downtown's Sincerely, Ophelia and Trump Tower. 'No more of these stuffy CPAC vibes,' the 29-year-old said. 'We actually have fun and we're normal.' With her regular bacchanals that can swell to as many as 300 people, love is definitely in the air. And apparently in the bathroom stalls. 'There was a couple in the bathroom who were doing something highly inappropriate at my last party,' Debono told The Post about the politically charged passion at a May bash, which attracted 50 sharp-dressed attendees. 'It was getting hot and heavy in there,' she said. 'At least there was a happy ending somewhere.' The 29-year-old single lawyer from the West Village is happy to watch love blossom from the sidelines. 'That's why I throw these — I'm trying to find my husband,' Debono said of the parties that have a lopsided 60-40 split in favor of guys heavily representing the 'bro and tech vote.' 'I have met a few lovely young men, but as they say, the coach doesn't play.' In the golden age of conservatism, with control of the House, Senate and White House, singles are feeling fancy-free. 'It raises your stock,' Vanessa Simon, a former Queens Republican city council candidate, told The Post about dating as a female conservative in NYC. 'It's actually a conversation starter — definitely not a deal-breaker.' The 30-something credited the 'silent majority' with the ease of meeting MAGA-adjacent men in the city, even when she drops the Republican bomb into conversation: 'I've yet to have a guy walk away. 'It's a really good time for conservatives to date.' Yet political junkies are nothing if not strategic. 'It really matters putting yourself in a place geographically' that's going to yield the 'highest chance of meeting like-minded people,' said 32-year-old Toria Brooke, a conservative commentator and reporter who lives outside Nashville, Tennessee. Back when she worked in NYC, the guys she met mostly leaned left 'unless they were in finance.' Nashville, with its healthy share of 'bigger, bearded, rugged men' — a breath of fresh air from the 'yuppie, feminine' dudes proliferating in other cities — was a big draw. She cites 'patriotism' as being hot — prevalent at the fund-raisers and movie premieres at Mar-a-Lago she attends — though she's not found lasting love, yet. 'I've made some great connections, but it's just the luck of the draw.' But don't count out the Big Apple, said singles. 'There are plenty of options in New York — if you know where to look,' claimed Brent Morden, vice president of the New York Young Republican Club, whose wild December gala made Post headlines. Date Right Stuff, an app for singles with shared values, has seen 'tens of thousands of downloads right after the election,' according to 40-year-old co-founder Dan Huff. The 'big bump' adds to the app's nearly 400,000 downloads as the team focuses on New York with sought-after events that have drawn 'hundreds of attendees and generated strong buzz.' 'There's a spark in New York now, a reawakening,' added Huff, a former lawyer in the Trump White House who said the app boasts at least 75 marriages. 'Our main focus is to build critical masses in these Democratic cities to make sure these people have somewhere to go,' added Micaela Bishop, 29, of New York, the app's chief growth officer. 'It's probably easier for a woman to find a conservative guy than it is reversed,' asserted New York Young Republican Club recruitment chair Gianna Prignano. However, the 25-year-old Westchester native admitted the climate is better now than it was four years ago. 'I feel like it's at the beginning of us turning around. We can't give up on New York.' MAGA men insist the pendulum has already swung back in favor of 'traditionalism.' Trad wife is in and 'girlboss is out,' asserted the 22-year-old Pearson, adding that women are 'over it' when it comes to 'beta male cucks.' 'Right now, liberal women are super into conservative men,' he said. 'It feels a little rebellious.' Pearson said he's turned the heads of women in bars when he evangelizes about the issues he holds dear, like not splitting the bill anymore. 'Conservative men are in such high demand,' adding that women are done 'splitting the bill or Venmo-ing someone for a $5 cup of coffee.' 'Gen Z is yearning for a return to tradition,' asserted Pearson, 'and we're actively bringing that about. If I can spread the good word and bring them over to our side, I've done my duty.' For Brooke, it's self-defeating to soften values for the sake of a potential romance that's doomed to fail along political divides. 'You save yourself a lot of trouble by trying to fit a square peg in a round hole,' she lamented. 'There's nothing better than a conservative woman,' Pearson said, specifically someone who knows she doesn't 'need' a guy, but wants a man 'being a man.' He believes the concepts of 'emasculation' and the 'obsession over toxic masculinity' are finally being put out to pasture. 'Conservatives have the most fun,' he said. 'You can be unfiltered and not worry about getting cancelled or losing your livelihood.' As Debono said in her video: 'Who would disagree with a hotter America? Well, liberals would. That's who.' For Isabella DeLuca, the narrative that conservatives are 'close-minded, xenophobic and bigoted couldn't be further from the truth.' The 25-year-old conservative, who spoke openly about her arrest and pardon for her two-minute entry into the Capitol on Jan. 6, thought she would have been married 'with at least a kid or two by now,' like her mom was at her age. 'Friends my age feel behind,' said the Long Islander, who knows 'getting married and having a family' would 'fulfill' her. 'I don't want to spend the duration of my 20s partying and quote-unquote living my life to come into my 30s and realize I made a mistake.' For the single Morden, thinking of the New York Young Republican Club's upcoming 'Sail Away Summer Soiree' evokes the president's favorite mantra, 'The best is yet to come.' 'I haven't found love yet,' said the New Yorker, 'but I'm very optimistic for myself.'
New European
3 days ago
- Business
- New European
The flaw in Starmer's attack on reckless Farage
It was a session of soundbites and, more importantly, seed-planting. Starmer had a decent (for him) one-liner about Farage, currently in Las Vegas at a MAGA-adjacent cryptocurrency conference, gambling with your money. With a mere 1,533 days left until the last possible date for the next general election, Keir Starmer delivered his first speech of the campaign on Thursday. Ignoring the Conservatives almost completely ('they're in decline, they're sliding into the abyss,' he said), the prime minister used almost all of his remarks and the subsequent Q&A to attack Nigel Farage. There were repeated references to Farage's huge blunder in saying Jaguar Land Rover deserved to go bust – it would have cost 11,000 British jobs – over a rebranding that he considered 'woke'. There was deserved mention of Farage's enthusiasm for Liz Truss's kamikaze mini-budget, and warnings that Reform's even more reckless plans would cause an even bigger cataclysm in a fragile economy. The best section, though, was the seed-planting. Starmer asked: 'Can you trust him? Can you trust him with your future? Could you trust him with your jobs? Could you trust him with your mortgage? Your pay slips, your bills?' Labour need to see these seeds of doubt take root if they are to stop Reform's poll surge. They are eight points behind the far right party in the latest YouGov poll, though No10 will be heartened that, when the same pollster asks voters who they'd prefer as prime minister, Stamer leads Farage by 15 points. Suggested Reading The UK-EU reset deal is not a Brexit surrender Jonty Bloom This is the start of a very long campaign in which you will hear the same things again and again from Starmer (or maybe his replacement). That Farage's plans would be a 'mad experiment' involving 'billions upon billions of completely unfunded spending. Precisely the sort of irresponsible splurge that sent your mortgage, your bills and the cost of living through the roof. It's Liz Truss all over again.' Conspicuous by its absence in Starmer's attacks (and mentioned here previously) is Farage's weakness as Mr Brexit. The normally talkative Reform boss fled the country on holiday last week when he could have been in the Commons debating Starmer's Brexit reset, and gave it only fleeting attention during a press conference on Tuesday, called in haste after his absence was widely mocked. Farage said the deal was 'a total sell-out and something that [Starmer] promised he wouldn't do', but apart from jabs at the 12-year fishing rights agreement and the role of the European Court of Justice, that was pretty much that. Yet Starmer mentioned the EU deal only once. Is he waiting for tangible benefits of closer relations with Europe to be felt, or does he really think there is no benefit in tying Farage to a disaster even bigger and much harder to reverse than the Truss-pocalypse? The latter would be mystifying. 'He told you Brexit would make you rich and it's cost the economy £100bn a year instead,' is all Starmer has to say. Perhaps he could take a leaf out of a book called A More Perfect Union, just announced by publishers Weidenfield & Nicholson. Its author, a leading human rights lawyer who will be familiar to Starmer, calls for 'radical steps' from political leaders to admit that 'Europe is once again central to Britain's future' and argues that the UK should 'build a union' with the bloc again. The writer is Marina Wheeler, who spent 25 years married to Boris Johnson before she divorced him in 2018, reportedly receiving a settlement of £4m. The prime minister should follow her example in putting the worst firmly behind you and making sure the bad guys pay their dues.
Yahoo
27-04-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
J.D. Vance's Best Friend, the Canadian Politician, Has No Comment
J.D. Vance's best friend has no comment. In truth, J.D. Vance's best friend really doesn't want anyone to know he's J.D. Vance's best friend — not now that he's running for Canadian parliament in an industrial city on the shores of Lake Ontario. For three consecutive days in late April, I arrive at J.D. Vance's best friend's campaign headquarters, on Division Street in the hardscrabble Ontario village of Bowmanville, and I'm told that J.D. Vance's best friend is most definitely aware of my two prior visits. From behind a locked door, a polite older volunteer informs me that if J.D. Vance's best friend has any comments to offer he will be sure to contact me. Such is the plight of a Canadian politician named Jamil Jivani. A Yale law classmate of Vance and his wife Usha, the son of a Kenyan father and white Canadian mother and the product of underprivileged circumstances, Jivani had been parachuted into the safe district east of Toronto in good measure because of his connections to the vice president. Like Vance's Hillbilly Elegy, Jivani has written a memoir of childhood hardship, one filled with uncheckable tales of youthful illiteracy and near brushes with violence, only his book purporting to portray young male rage disappeared without a trace; both tales read like special-need pleas for preferential treatment from an Ivy League school. A few months before my arrival, Jivani's Canada First, MAGA-adjacent Conservative party had been heading for a landslide victory, offering tax cuts and anti-woke policies, along with juvenile name calling. But then Donald Trump threatened to annex Canada and derisively referred to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as a 'governor,' offending the entire nation. In short order, Trump imposed tariffs on Canadian automobiles and steel and aluminum, in blatant breach of the treaty Trump himself had negotiated in his first term. Casting wolfish eyes on Canada as America's '51st state,' Trump became the most despised figure in the country — along with his bearded sidekick Vice President J.D. Vance. For reasons that seem to careen from grandiose designs on being a Mount Rushmore-worthy historical figure to schoolyard bullying, Trump thus transformed Canadian politics — and society. Trump's degrading and ridiculous attacks instantly incited a 25-point swing to the center-left Liberal party, obliterating the huge polling advantage of a Conservative leader with an uncanny resemblance to a young Richard Nixon — the slicked back hair, sly smile, bottomless grievance. By contrast, the new Liberal leader Mark Carney was a former head of the Banks of Canada and England, an economist with degrees from Harvard and Oxford and a history of dealing with the catastrophe of Brexit. His quiet demeanor and no-bullshit approach seemed to match the rising sense of outrage and defiance in Canada — or at least that is what the polls show. Incredibly, no major American political figure came to the defense of Canada, to the dismay of my homeland, nor did business or union leaders, as American institutions cowered and curled into submission. For decades Canada has been America's closest ally and friend, but in a matter of days the country embarked on a new and astounding anti-American trajectory, one that is likely have global implications, as the image of Trump and the United States morph into a singular authoritarian, untrustworthy, impulsive, belligerent, and uniquely unappealing brand. THE STRETCH OF EXURBIA east of Toronto that Jivani is running to represent is much like Springfield, USA, the anywhere fictional city from The Simpsons, not the unfortunate real Springfield in Ohio that Vance falsely claimed was populated by pet-eating migrants — a transparently racist statement that Vance's best friend overlooked, despite his mixed-race heritage. The smokestack from a nuclear reactor looms over the landscape of this section of Lake Ontario, and the strip malls and row after row of new tract housing could be the outskirts of many American cities — but with an epic and telling difference. In Canada, diversity isn't a dirty word or dog-whistle slogan, at least not for the vast majority, no matter how controversial the terms DEI and 'woke' might be. The population in the city of Oshawa and nearby Bowmanville is as diverse as can be imagined, the old-school Ontario red-brick farmhouses flanked by Syrian Christian basilicas and Muslim Welfare Centers and mega-churches. Millions of immigrants have arrived in Canada in the last decade, causing an acute affordable housing shortage, but the closest a political party comes to race signaling is the unctuous Conservative leader's constant references to the 'rampant crime wave' that supposedly envelopes Canadians — fear that I failed to detect once in my fellow Canadians. With J.D. Vance acting as Trump's attack dog, conjuring the world's lone super power as somehow a victim of scheming countries like Canada, Jivani obviously needed to downplay his close association with his best buddy. Normally an eager cultural warrior on social media, Jivani ducked the press to avoid questions about Vance, although for years the connection had been his sole claim to fame. Along the new four-lane highways lacing the countryside, with countless plots pegged for imminent development, there are Asian supermarkets and fast-food joints and young immigrant families strolling in the new tract housing — some wearing turbans, some burqas, some Canadian flag T-shirts saying 'Elbows Up.' In Dam Foods, a Jamaican store selling goat meat and oxtail around the corner from Jivani's headquarters, the workers haven't heard of the candidate, nor has he visited the store, at least to their knowledge — but the shop is a visible minority presence in a down-on-its-luck community in the midst of a cultural transformation. Closer to the city of Toronto, the iconic General Motors facility has been reduced to a single operating plant, a few thousand employees turning out 600 pickups every day, but Trump's tariffs threaten to destroy what remains of the Canadian automobile industry — and thereby decimate the city of Oshawa. Once, union auto workers on both sides of the border shared a brotherhood, fighting for better conditions with a common cause, but Trump has managed to turn working-class brother against brother — while billionaires receive tax cuts. In Oshawa, the leader of the local outpost of the United Auto Workers laments the 'absolutely bizarre' tariffs imposed on the industry and notes Jivani's connection to Vance. But what most distresses the auto workers is the sense of helplessness. They have no way to catch the ear of the American government, to plead their case: Canadian auto workers are highly paid, with excellent benefits, not the low-wage workers that the car companies have migrated to as they abandoned the rust belt on both sides of the border; Canadian workers are not destroying American auto jobs, as Trump continually asserts, but part of a highly functional, integrated system — like the two nations. If only the union in Oshawa had a way of getting word of their plight to the powers that be in Washington, I'm told. But there is someone who could make that call — their local Conservative candidate Jamil Jivani could easily pick up the telephone and call his best friend, the vice president, on their behalf, if he wanted to. But he hasn't, it would seem. Perhaps Jivani asking Vance to intervene would be pointless; perhaps he's afraid of riling up his best friend; perhaps advocating for the auto workers in Oshawa doesn't serve his personal political ambition; perhaps Oshawa is just a stepping stone for a politician with his eyes on bigger prizes as a Christian nationalist; perhaps the good people of Oshawa are on their own. Vance may well consider himself above the concerns of a few sad-sack Canadians. The only thing that can be said with certainty is this: J.D. Vance's best friend has no comment. 'I hear he's a slippery bastard,' one worker emerging from the afternoon shift at the General Motors plant tells me when I ask what he knows about Jamil Jivani. FRIENDSHIPS AND FAMILIES by the millions criss-cross the border, Canadian and American relationships built up over centuries of coexistence and co-prosperity and adversity. For most every American I know, Trump's incessant attacks on Canada are a kind of joke — he can't be serious, of course, they say: No one actually thinks that the United States should annex Canada. Except Trump, as the friendless president repeats over and over again. But the funny thing about dismissing a serious threat is that when no one else is laughing, it slowly becomes clear that the joke isn't really funny. It follows that laughing at your own jokes, over time, turns you into the joke. The friendship between Jivani and Vance appears to be sincere, as does the Canadian's connection with Usha Vance, as Jivani offered a Bible reading at their wedding. When Jivani fell ill with cancer, he went to live with the Vances in Ohio, and when he was well enough to work again, his pal J.D. hired him to run his failed nonprofit that was supposed to save Appalachia. Vance also introduced Jivani to his book agent, securing a deal for his acolyte's truly unreadable and unread memoir. When Jivani was nominated to run for parliament, the Conservative party appeared giddy at the prospect of having a member so closely connected with an American power player. But all that was long before Trump declared unilateral economic war on Canada — precisely the kind of unprovoked unilateral conflict he'd promised to avoid during the campaign, this one straining the credulity of even the most maniacal MAGA zealot. Like J.D. and Usha Vance, Jivani is the product of a small law school circle revolving around Yale law professor Amy Chua, author of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother — a book that advocates authoritarian parenting in pursuit of ruthless ambition. Yale's charmed trio from the benighted class of 2013 — all ravenously hungry for power, no matter what prior beliefs they might have held, like their supremely arrogant classmate Vivek Ramaswamy — appear unburdened by personal connections or loyalty to anything other than their own aspirations. Friendship with their transgender Yale law classmate Sofia Nelson, for example, was abandoned as inconvenient by Vance. In this way, Jivani's silence about his best friend makes sense. But now that friendship is reaching the true pressure point — for Jivani and for Vance, as it is for Canada and America. History is littered with former friendships undone by the lust for power — most particularly in Europe during the gangster 1930s, as preposterous as the analogy might sound — and so it might be for Jivani as he is forced to confront the reality that his best friend has sworn fealty to a president bent on the destruction of Canada. FOR EXPAT DUAL NATIONALS like me, one of millions of Canadians living mostly invisibly in the United States, Trump's assault on Canada has presented a new and unwanted set of dilemmas. If America's policy is to actively harm my homeland, then what does that say about American society? There are many personal analogies for the U.S.-Canada relationship — a marriage, a friendship, differently sized siblings — but geography is destiny and there is no way to reconfigure that reality. If America First means America Only, then how is it possible to ignore the assault on my history and beliefs and basic sense of decency? Unless it is all Trump's passing fancy, as so many Americans seem to believe, like a narrative in a professional wrestling fantasy — in which case, who are the fools? For many Canadians, Trump's mystifying admiration for Vladimir Putin takes on sinister dimensions when it is applied to Canada, as Canadian politicians confront the implications of the president's ongoing and seemingly very serious assault on the existence of the nation's sovereignty. The questions multiply: How to strike a deal with a man who breaks his word so easily? How much damage can be done in four years? What are Canadians to make of the appalling lack of allies advocating for Canada inside the American political system? Horror stories of a newly politicized border run rife in Canada, with rumors of the perils of crossing into the United States as tourists raising an unthinkable question: What if America is becoming a permanent menace? Or, as we say in Canada, in reply to the admonition to not take Trump literally: seriously? THE TERM OF ART in economics is this: Beggar thy neighbor. It is used to describe a predatory approach to global trade: impoverish your neighbor, the theory goes, and thus enrich yourself. The strategy was all the rage during the trade wars of the Great Depression, so that provides a sense of how it has worked historically — including the world war that followed. A variation of the zero-sum game usually ascribed to Trump, the difference is that beggaring thy neighbor requires an active and malicious campaign to harm your otherwise potentially cooperative next-door neighbor — risking the chance of retaliation, but also hazarding lasting disgust and estrangement. For Trump, the amorality of this kind of ruthlessness is second nature. Beggaring thy neighbor is standard operating procedure in New York City real estate, with landlords getting rid of rent-control tenants or rival developers by way of relentless wars of attrition: Make your neighbor's life impossible. Don't collect the garbage. Create street noise, hire corrupt lawyers to send harassing letters, make the expense and stress seem not worth the fight — and so force surrender. If this deliberately obnoxious thinking is applied geopolitically, Trump's belligerence adds up — and that is precisely what Liberal leader Carney describes as Trump's long-term aim with Canada, a fact that seems to be entirely ignored in the American press, even as it unfolds on a daily basis only a few miles to the north. Attacking Canada's car industry, deriding its high-quality lumber, and devaluing the entire idea of the country as a pointless charade has the cumulative effect of demeaning a nation and a society — supposedly leading to weakness and the fantasy of capitulation. But in Canada, a nation is at stake, not a prized lot on Fifth Avenue or a casino in Atlantic City. In the last days of April, after a few weeks of blessed silence from Trump — with the Conservative party trying desperately to change the subject to a program of change — the president again casually taunted Canada only days before the vote. Once again, Trump spoke about the country becoming the 51st state — like an old mob boss shrugging and explaining the logic of extortion — assuring Time magazine that he isn't trolling Canada, a fact that Americans seem to find impossible to acknowledge, despite the obvious truth in front of their faces The new increasingly contemptible threats issued by Trump are still covered in the press in Canada, now with more of a sense of exhaustion and resignation than fear, but underneath the eye rolls there is the unmistakable sinew of defiance. The shock is gone, replaced by disbelief that a president, now openly described in the Canadian media as a madman, would try to impose his will, despite the obvious lack of any democratic interest in Canada in being annexed. Then there is the inescapable lesson of history, one that apparently will have to be learned again, the hard way: Beggaring thy neighbor, only beggars thyself. THE SIGNS OF economic vulnerability are evident in the older, mainly white sections of Oshawa and Bowmanville: the boarded-up storefronts, the mostly idle car plants, the political arguments of pale-faced talking heads on TV about the coming recession. But so are the signs of real vitality, in the acres of new townhouses, rising from apple orchards where I worked as a teenager, populated by people from the world over, the bored young Indian and Filipino kids, trailing behind their parents in the ethnic grocery stores, forming their own memories inside the new reality that is emerging in Canada. For those kids, the reactionary politics and the fears of the disappearing generations behind Trump's America are background noise, like the piped-in Bhangra Muzak. 'You can feel the transition everywhere,' a kid in Bowmanville's Jamaican Dam Foods store tells me, with evident relief. As America retreats into the past — the 1950s, the 1890s, the age of the Founding Fathers, take your pick — what is emerging in Canada has the unmistakable look of the future: Demography will inevitably bring the multifaceted world to North America, like it or not, and the new nation that is emerging north of the border is developing the understanding and tolerance and appreciation of complexity that will be a foundation of the 21st century. This week, two of America's closest allies are holding national elections centered largely on Trump's version of aggressive nationalist populism, with both Canada and Australia swinging wildly against far-right reactionaries after experiencing a few months of the president's dystopian chaos. Now, amazingly, decent, tolerant, unassuming but unafraid and unbending Canada — the friend the world never knew it had — stands on the frontline of a threat that confronts humankind. Globalism has become a pejorative term for many in America and around the world, a synonym for godless mind control or the specter of global governance or the horror of being overrun by of hordes of migrants, but in the exurbs east of Toronto, it is emerging in a society quietly but persistently redefining what it means to be a nation — a new identity that transcends nationality. After Canada's election on Monday, J.D. Vance's best friend will almost certainly once again have no comment about Donald Trump and J.D. Vance's vision for the future — which might explain why Jivani's chances of victory have decreased rapidly. But Canada will. No matter who wins the election, the vote will have consequences that echo for generations to come. For Canada, there is no turning back. In Canada, Trump's America has never looked so small and sad — a truth that America's best friend sees with clear eyes. More from Rolling Stone Trump's Approval Rating Hits New Low, Capping Week of Dismal Polling Judge Blocks Trump Administration From Its Attack on Union Rights Justice Department Removes Protections for Journalists in Leak Investigations Best of Rolling Stone The Useful Idiots New Guide to the Most Stoned Moments of the 2020 Presidential Campaign Anatomy of a Fake News Scandal The Radical Crusade of Mike Pence
Axios
11-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Axios
Young Americans' favorite podcasts reveal a stark partisan split
Young people are starkly divided by who they vote for, what they do for fun and where they get their news and information, according to new Axios-Generation Lab polling. Why it matters: Gen Z and young millennials exemplify how social media, news and podcasts have fragmented America into competing realities. Zoom in: Their favorite podcasts cover a vast range from comedy to true crime to daily news. But patterns — and partisan splits — emerge when honing in on the audiences of MAGA and MAGA-adjacent media stars like Charlie Kirk and Joe Rogan, according to the poll of 18- to 34-year-olds nationwide. By the numbers: 27% of young people who voted for President Trump say they listen to "The Joe Rogan Experience" at least once a month, compared with 6% who cast their ballots for former Vice President Harris. 19% of Trump voters say the same about "The Charlie Kirk Show," and 18% tune into "The Ben Shapiro Show." Among Harris voters, it's 3% for each. Podcasts from Barstool Sports, founded by Trump supporter Dave Portnoy, are the most popular among young people who voted for Trump. 34% of young Trump voters say they listened to a Barstool Sports podcast in the last month, compared with 9% of Harris supporters. The intrigue: A few podcasts are roughly equally popular among Gen Zers on the right and left, including "The Daily" (13% of Harris voters and 14% of Trump voters), TED Talks Daily (17% of Harris voters and 23% of Trump voters) and "Call Her Daddy" (9% each). Zoom out: There are divisions in what young Americans on the right vs. left do for fun, too. 44% of Harris supporters say they love going to concerts vs. 28% of Trump supporters. 42% of Trump voters are avid sports fans vs. 26% of Harris voters. Both sides are equally plugged into politics and current events (28%, Harris voters; 26%, Trump voters).
