A democratic socialist is surging in the 2020 race with the help of college liberals. The Trump team is counting on the president’s son to help energize campus conservatives
“I think he’s hilarious,” said Parker Marlow, a University of Georgia student who helped organize his October 2018 visit. “One of the reasons why I like to follow him is because he posts memes all the time and they’re hilarious.”
With Don Jr., however, the audience — all students forced into mandatory attendance — was more amenable, because he went through the trouble of actually explaining political points and his father’s presidency, peppered with jokes about life as a trouble-making college student. “He doesn't just talk about it like everybody already knows.”
Nationwide, conservative students make up about 30 percent of college campuses, while self-identified liberals make up 70 percent, said Nancy Thomas, the director of the Institute for Democracy and Higher Education at Tufts University.
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