Shock poll shows students at prestigious university flip presidential pick for the first time in 12 years

Students astatine nan University of Notre Dame look much consenting to support erstwhile President Donald Trump according to a shocking caller poll.

The Irish Rover surveyed 705 apt student voters betwixt September 15 and September 18 soliciting their prime for president. 

The canvass showed that 47.6 percent of students favored Trump for president while 45.9 percent favored Kamala Harris.

The results shows that 5.5 percent of students chose a campaigner whose sanction was not included successful nan canvass and only 4 votes for Green Party's Jill Stein and 2 votes for Libertarian campaigner Chase Oliver.

The polling results people a astonishing displacement toward Trump contempt a agelong complete 12-year history of a mostly of Notre Dame students preferring nan Democratic nominee for president. 

A 2020 Notre Dame Student Government mock predetermination results showed that 66 percent of students favored Joe Biden for president while only 29 percent preferred Trump. 

A 2016 mock predetermination showed that 59 percent favored Hillary Clinton and only 24 percent selected Trump. 

The canvass demonstrated a gender disagreement among nan student assemblage betwixt those supporting Trump versus Harris. 

Fifty-seven percent of men chose Trump while 35 percent of men chose Harris. Likewise, 57 percent of women connected field supported Harris pinch only 38 percent supporting Trump. 

Harris needs support from Catholic voters if she is going to triumph important plaything states for illustration Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania. 

The canvass of students astatine Notre Dame is different than somewhat different than polls of American Catholic voters overall.

An EWTN/RealClearPolitics poll of Catholic voters showed that 50 percent of Catholic voters scheme to support Kamala Harris for President, while 43 percent support Trump.

The canvass featuring 1,000 Catholic voters was conducted August 28-30, 2024 pinch a separator of correction of +/- 3 percent points.