DURHAM, N.H. – Young Republican and Democratic voters don’t agree on much. But college students outside of former President Donald Trump’s rally at the University of New Hampshire Saturday found common ground on at least one thing – they’re unhappy with President Joe Biden.
“He’s got to go,” Katelyn Bellemare, a 19-year-old self-described right-leaning independent, said. Bellemare isn’t sure yet who she’ll vote for in the 2024 primary or general election, but she knows it won’t be the current president.
“He’s hasn’t done any good for this country,” the Rochester, Mass. native studying psychology at UNH, said, noting Biden’s handling of the economy and foreign policy as key deterrents.
Hours later, inside the Whittemore Center Arena, Trump attempted to capitalize on the discontent expressed by voters like Bellemare during a wide-ranging speech that mostly focused on his economic agenda.
“Were you better off five years ago or are you better off today?” the Republican frontrunner asked the crowd of thousands, including many college-age students finishing out their last few days on campus before winter break. “Not one thing has gotten better under crooked Joe Biden.”
With less than a month to go until voting starts in the GOP primary, Trump is dominating his Republican competitors in every national and state poll. And other than several brief mentions of his primary opponents, the ex-president appeared more focused in his speech on a general…
