Trump Shows Up for the Bros. Will They Show Up for Him? As the 2024 campaign comes to a close, honing in on the grievances of young men everywhere is the Trump campaign strategy. The theory here is that young men are ready to stop being nice and start being real about their desire to brush back feminism and egalitarian politics in favor of dudes being dudes in the Trump White House.
Polling has shown a historic gender split this cycle, and so it is now widely said that if Trump can get the bros to vote, the bros will carry the day. Suddenly an election cycle that began with questions about Donald Trump’s Dobbs problem is ending with questions about Kamala Harris’ young men problem.
Trump is scheduled to appear in State College, Pennsylvania, twice in the final days of the campaign to court the young, male and angry. NOTUS’ Katherine Swartz went to the first event, a rally at the campus arena on Saturday. Trump “called out the Penn State wrestling team by name and brought them onstage with him,” she reports. He “said he’d ‘maybe wrestle one or two of them.’”