Meet the Voters Who Will Decide the Election | WSJ State of the Stat

Going into the 2024 presidential election, nearly a third of voters aren't sold on President Biden or Donald Trump. So-called “persuadable" voters say they are undecided or might consider voting for a third-party candidate in November. Traditionally, a Democrat has to be up by four or five points in national polling to have the strength to win in the electoral college. So how will these voters impact the election?

WSJ breaks down what we know about the "persuadables," and why winning them over could be more essential to President Biden than Donald Trump.

Chapters:
0:00 “Persuadable voters”
0:43 Voter breakdown
2:29 Biden’s coalition
4:02 What this means for November

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[nicholas]

I want to meet the people that can't decide between trump and biden. What information are they waiting for?

[davidsamuelson]

So you maintain an electoral college on the premise that you don’t want the winner to be the one with the most votes yet the elections all fall down to maybe 5 states?

[etobillions]

why are these two still the only choice America has?

[raenico]

How is it so casual to Americans that Democrats usually need more votes to win the electoral college?

[Awesomenes]

Gosh leaving RFK out of these discussions is criminal by the media. The media can, on its own, push the idea that there are more than two options. I just don’t understand why they dont

[jaredspencer]

Any candidate who promised to build 10 million homes would win every single vote from young people.

[Mike-]

As a moderate voter who doesn't support extremes on both sides no way I would vote Trump back in office. What he did after losing in 2020 was crazy and man like that should never hold that kind of power in his hands. His plans to put in even more crazy people around him just makes him much more dangerous.

[SocietyNeedsImprovement]

I'm fascinated by the notion that Biden's fitness as president is in question but not Trump's.

[bhaskarvishwajeet]

They just securitised fence-sitters into an asset class for betting enthusiasts 😂

[ХерпДерп]

I like how what the interviewed person is saying barely correlates with the graphs shown in the video. I mean, come on, he says persuadables dont care about immigration and care a lot about the economy, even though immigration is the top issue for like 20% of the people in that group, and the economy is barely 5 percentage points higher.

[Nanofuture]

I'm voting third party and I'm not persuadable by Trump or Biden.

[juiceman_]

It’s going to be Biden, Trump, or the couch

[Cascadec]

I think I want RFK, since he probably won’t die of old age while in office

[alexeykulikov]

Dear America, you are shocking these days. That is scary.

[doneaton]

I think the biggest problem American voters have is not educating themselves. When we have homelessness caused by fifty years of wage suppression and people who never got help after 2008 collapse together with excessively low taxes on the wealthy and corporations it's never been clearer which party to vote for.

[maemilev]

With the current situation, it's likely that Trump will win more than Biden. However, it's still too early to predict...

[texasfight]

"Why cant I have somebody else" people say as primary elections have some of the lowest turnouts every election cycle.

[geniusnoble]

I am an African Migrant voting for the first time. I will vote for Trump any day over Biden. The Democratic Party has lost its ways. Now focusing on Gays, and transgenders. No more working class and economics.

[oftengone]

Why can’t people admit that global affairs were more under control with Trump?

[alanzolotoff]

I’m totally in this group and so far I’m leaning towards Trump. I don’t like open borders.