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I'm a reporter from the New York Times.
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Can I talk to you? About? About? About politics.
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I personally like to keep that personal business to myself.
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I don't share my political views.
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You guys are basically not — don't want to talk about your political views.
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I'm understanding that correctly.
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Yeah.
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Pretty much, yes.
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I'm in Michigan, a crucial state for control of Congress in the upcoming midterms.
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And I'm trying to talk to young men here about their politics — a tricky subject.
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Yeah, no, so I think we'll pass for now about politics.
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You'll pass.
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Two years ago, they swung hard for Donald Trump.
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That was a surprise, because that age group used to lean left.
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Do you lean more
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Republican or Democrat?
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Republican.
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Probably more Republican.
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But now, polls say that young voters are the most likely to be upset about the economy and the war in Iran.
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I think I voted Trump.
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I would take that back.
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So I wanted to know, where were their heads now?
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Were young men the future of MAGA?
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Or were they the new swing voters?
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OK, so your first election was the 2024 election.
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What a way to get into it.
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Yes.
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Aaron is 20 and a student at Hope College, a small Christian college in West Michigan.
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Everyone we spoke to was concerned about a backlash for speaking candidly about their political views.
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We're only using their first names.
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Can I ask how you voted in that election?
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Uh, yeah.
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I voted for Trump.
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He was an outsider bringing energy into Washington.
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We were going to have no new wars, that the border was going to be locked down,
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that a lot of the stuff was going to change for the better.
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How did you feel about the Democratic Party back then?
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I felt excluded.
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As a white man and a young man at that, But the message I kind of received is there's no place for you.
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Where's your head at now with President Trump?
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We're in a several -month conflict with Iran now that is raising gas prices.
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We have U .S servicemen who I believe are kind of needlessly dying in this conflict.
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Those kind of broken promises are going to stick in the mind of a lot of voters.
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Aaron thinks the MAGA movement has run its course.
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But he's still conservative, and he said he still might vote Republican.
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That wasn't the case for the next guy I talked to.
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His name was Nash, and I met him outside of 7 -Eleven in East Lansing.
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That's where Michigan State University is, and tens of thousands of potential young voters.
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You voted for President Trump in 2024.
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Yep.
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How are you seeing
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President Trump now?
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You know, he doesn't worry about people like us.
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He makes us look foolish, I think, truly, in interviews and in the public eye.
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Like, we just look stupid when he represents us.
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Nash is 20, and like many of the young people we talk to, he really doesn't like the war in Iran or Israel's war in Gaza.
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We're funding a country that murders thousands of children.
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I think that we should stop bowing down to Israel and worry more about people here.
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Nowadays, speaking out against this, people just say you're anti -Semitic, and it's silly.
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It's a strong view that I heard over and over from young people upset with U .S support for Israel.
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And it's pushed
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Nash toward Democrats.
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What about this election, this coming up in November?
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Go Abdul.
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I stand by that.
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That's Abdul El -Sayed, the progressive
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Democrat who's running for Senate here.
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What do you like about Abdul?
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I've heard him talk and agreed on things he's said just about, like, making, you know, government more for people instead of,
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you know, the elite and stuff like that.
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Nash's swing from voting for Trump to a progressive might seem like whiplash.
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But polling shows a majority of young men now say they prefer
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Democratic candidates over Republican ones.
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That's a big change from 2024.
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You know, there are tech ads and stuff on TV and they say, like, this guy's really far left.
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He's too far left for Michigan.
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You know, he's a Muslim.
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Who cares if he's a Muslim, realistically?
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I mean, if he stands on good things and you like the things he says,
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then you should vote for him and not worry about his name.
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When I left the college campuses, I met Jordan.
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He was carrying trim for his baby daughter's room.
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His biggest concern was the economy.
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Take a grocery bill from 2020, 2018, and the same bill is three times the cost now, so that hurts.
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Nearly 90 % of young people disapprove of Trump's handling of the cost of living.
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That's the highest level of any age group.
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Jordan voted for Trump in 2024.
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I think you see this socialist movement because of how poorly thought of Trump is now.
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And I don't know what to think of that.
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Trump, of course, is not on a ballot.
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But the midterms, in many ways, will be a referendum on his presidency.
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Jordan is swinging away from Trump.
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But to what is an open question.
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Do you consider yourself Republican?
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Yeah, probably.
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I don't know.
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I don't know if I consider myself conservative or Democrat right now, but it's a weird middle ground.

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Vocaboli chiave di questo video

15 parole del video che vale la pena imparare, con pronuncia e significato:

ParolaPronunciaSignificato
swing verbo/ˈswɪŋ/oscillare, ondeggiare
voter sostantivo/ˈvoʊtɚ/elettore, elettrice
poll sostantivo/poʊl/sondaggio
progressive sostantivo/pɹəˈɡɹɛsɪv/progressivo
lean verbo/ˈliːn/pendere
elite sostantivo/ɪˈlit/élite
silly aggettivo/ˈsɪl.i/sciocco
reporter sostantivo/ɹɪˈpoɹ.tɚ/giornalista, inviato
upcoming aggettivoprossimo, imminente
bow sostantivo/ˈboʊ̯/arco
crucial aggettivo/ˈkɹuː.ʃəl/cruciale
socialist sostantivo/ˈsoʊ.ʃə.lɪst/socialista
correctly avverbio/kəˈɹɛk(t).li/correttamente
presidency sostantivo/ˈpɹɛzɪdənsi/presidenza
nowadays avverbio/ˈnaʊ.ə.deɪz/oggidì, oggigiorno

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ParolaSignificato
lock down verboconfinare

Frasi da ripetere

Frasi brevi e complete del video che puoi riutilizzare nella conversazione di tutti i giorni:

  • Can I talk to you?
  • I don't share my political views.
  • We're only using their first names.
  • Can I ask how you voted in that election?
  • You know, he doesn't worry about people like us.

La grammatica di questo video

Le strutture che chi parla usa di più, con le parole esatte del video:

StrutturaNel video
Present perfect have/has + participio passato — un’azione passata che conta ancora adessohas run · I've heard
Superlativi the -est / the most … — il massimo o il minimo di un gruppothe most likely · His biggest · the highest
Consigli con “should” should + verbo — dire che cosa è meglio fareshould stop · should vote
Possibilità con “might / may” might/may + verbo — qualcosa di possibile ma non certomight vote · might seem

Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione

Chi parla usa 19 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come don't, I'm, we're. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.

  • I suoni “sh” e “zh”: crucial /ˈkɹuː.ʃəl/, socialist /ˈsoʊ.ʃə.lɪst/, foolish /ˈfuː.lɪʃ/, backlash /ˈbækˌlæʃ/, whiplash /ˈwɪpˌlæʃ/
  • Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: presidency /ˈpɹɛzɪdənsi/, referendum /ˌɹɛfəˈɹɛndəm/

I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:

  • Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: progressive /pɹəˈɡɹɛsɪv/, elite /ɪˈlit/, socialist /ˈsoʊ.ʃə.lɪst/, nowadays /ˈnaʊ.ə.deɪz/, ballot /ˈbælət/
  • /æ/ — più aperta della “e”: ballot /ˈbælət/, backlash /ˈbækˌlæʃ/, candidly /ˈkændɪdli/, whiplash /ˈwɪpˌlæʃ/

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