About half of Generation Z adults said they have “very little” trust in the presidency, according to new data from Gallup.
The data, which comes from the Walter Family Foundation-Gallup’s Voice of Gen Z study, found that 52 percent of voting-age adults born in 1997 or later said they have “very little” trust in the presidency. About 34 percent said they had “some” trust, 10 percent said they had “quite a lot” and 3 percent said they had a “great deal” of trust in the Oval Office.
The survey polled members of Gen ages 12 to 27 earlier this year. It also asked respondents about their confidence in other government institutions, including Congress and the Supreme Court.
Roughly 55 percent of Gen Z adults said they had “very little” trust in Congress, 38 percent said they had “some” trust, 6 percent said they had “quite a lot” and just 2 percent said they had a “great deal” of trust in the legislative branch.
Similarly, 46 percent of respondents said they had “very little” trust in the Supreme Court, 35 percent said they had some trust, 14 percent said they had “quite a lot” and 5 percent said they had a “great deal” of confidence in the nation’s highest court.
The numbers come as former President Trump and Vice President Harris both seek to reach younger voters.
President Biden’s decision to drop out of the race and Harris’s subsequent rise to the top of the ticket could give Democrats a jolt of energy from the critical voting bloc. On the flip side, Republicans appear to believe Trump’s running mate Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), 39, will appeal to the younger voters.
Another recent survey, released by Democratic super PAC Won’t Pac Down, shows Harris leading Trump among voters ages 18-29 by 9 points — or 51 percent to 42 percent. Around 7 percent did not know which candidate they would back.
The Gallup study polled 4,157 people ages 12-27 from April 27 to May 9, and has a margin of error of 2.1 percentage points for the entire sample. When broken down into just adults, or those no longer enrolled in K-12 school, the margin of error is 3.1 percentage points.
