Millennials Say Trump Election Results Prove They Are ‘Best Generation’

Following Donald Trump’s recent election victory, many millennials are taking to social media to proclaim that they are “best generation.”
It comes after data revealed that Millennials, who are typically defined as people born from 1981 to 1996, are not following the typical pattern of growing more conservative as they age.
By studying voting surveys from both the U.K. and the U.S, The Financial Times found that the number of U.S. millennials voting Republican has remained well below the national average, rather than increasing as they age, with the current cohort of Millennials being the least conservative in history.
The data also shows that the number of Gen X, Boomer and Silent Generation voters supporting the Republicans has increased to above the national average as they have aged.
“I know millennials get a bad rap for being corny and too into BuzzFeed quizzes and identifying way too hard with Hogwarts Houses but we’ve been dealt a horrible hand and turned out to be the best generation,” one X user said in response to the research.
Other Millennials also took to social media to respond to the findings.
“Millennial men were too busy quoting anchorman and figuring out new, innovative ways to sack tap each other to get radicalized by the far right and I love them for that,” one X user wrote.
“It’s a real tragedy Boomers instilled in Millennials ‘don’t punch down on later generations’ because turns out we actually are the best generation ever it’s not even remotely close,” a third person wrote.
“Watching Gen Z men veer right hits different for Millennials. We lived through Columbine, 9/11, the Iraq War, 2008 crash, 2016 election, COVID, abortion bans, & now this. We watched institutions repeatedly fail us while older generations selfishly protected the status quo,” another person said.
Gen Z voters, born between 1997 and 2012, have typically trended toward the left, but exit poll data now suggests that voters aged between 18 and 27 are far more likely to support Trump than they were in previous years.
Preliminary data from The Associated Press’ VoteCast polling, based on more than 120,000 voters, showed that 52 percent of voters under 30 supported Harris in the 2024 election, down from 61 percent who backed President Joe Biden in 2020.
By comparison, 46 percent of young voters backed Trump this year, a jump from 36 percent in 2020. That means Trump cut the Democrats’ lead among the youngest voters by 19 points between 2020 and 2024. In contrast, Trump reduced the Democrats’ lead among voters aged 30 to 44 by 8 points between 2020 and 2024, from 12 points to 4.
Polling data suggests that the move toward the right among younger voters is being driven partly by young men. An average of the last three New York Times/Siena College national polls, conducted between September and October, revealed that Trump led Harris among young men by 21 points.
Meanwhile, according to a September Harvard Youth Poll survey, men aged 18-24 are more likely to identify as conservative than those aged 25-29. In the survey, 26 percent of younger men identified as conservative, compared to 21 percent of men in the 25-29 age group.
Nonetheless, Gen Z voters remain far more Democrat-aligned that millennials, who only just voted for Harris over Trump, according to CNN exit polling, which shows that Harris led among Gen Z voters by 11 points, while she lead among 30-44 year-olds by just 1 point.
Newsweek has contacted the Harris and Trump campaigns for comment.