The 2024 election could have been a polarizing one, however there’s a minimum of one level of settlement between voters who backed Republican President Donald Trump and supporters of his Democratic opponent, former Vice President Kamala Harris: Neither candidate talked sufficient about training on the marketing campaign path.
Total, 55 % of voters really feel they heard too little from each candidates about training, together with 54 % of Harris voters and 56 % of Trump voters. That’s based on a ballot launched earlier this month by All4Ed, a coverage and advocacy group that promotes faculty and workforce readiness, notably for college students of shade and college students from low-income households.
The ballot was performed final fall, from Oct. 30 to Nov. 5, by Lake Analysis Companions, a Democratic polling group, and the Tarrance Group, a Republican polling agency.
Thirty % of voters total thought the candidates talked in regards to the topic “the correct quantity,” the ballot discovered. And solely 3 % stated they stated they heard an excessive amount of in regards to the matter.
“Voters didn’t see training as enjoying a serious function,” stated Celinda Lake, president and CEO of Lake Analysis Companions.
That sentiment was bipartisan, agreed Brian Nienaber, a vice chairman on the Tarrance Group.
There “weren’t very many citizens on both aspect who thought they heard sufficient about training, and nearly no person who thought they heard an excessive amount of,” Nienaber stated.
Males over 50, public college mother and father, and Latino males had been notably apt to say they didn’t hear sufficient about training within the presidential election, with a minimum of 60 % of every group agreeing that they heard too little in regards to the matter.
Extra voters keep in mind Harris speaking about training versus Trump, the ballot revealed. Thirty-eight % of respondents recalled listening to her handle training in the course of the marketing campaign, in comparison with 26 % who stated the identical of Trump. Greater than 1 in 5 voters—21 %—couldn’t keep in mind both candidate speaking in regards to the difficulty.
The identical ballot additionally discovered that voters in each events reject Trump’s pitch to abolish the U.S. Division of Schooling. It revealed {that a} majority of voters help rising federal funding for training—however not if it means they need to pay increased taxes.
And it discovered that help for work-based training and career-connected studying is a broadly shared worth throughout a broad swath of the citizens.
