Personal Finance
Young Americans With Student Debt Flock to Clinton in Poll
Forty-three percent are for the candidate, up from 13 percent when Sanders was in the race, according to a survey of 1,500 millennials.
Hillary Clinton, Â Democratic candidate for president, greets supporters at a Hillary for America rally on Aug. 17, Â in Cleveland.
Photographer: Jeff Swensen/Getty ImagesThis article is for subscribers only.
People with student loans, who heavily favored Bernie Sanders in a presidential election poll taken in June, are migrating to the Clinton camp, according to a new survey.
In an online poll taken last week of 1,500 18- to 31-year-olds with student debt, 43 percent said they wanted Clinton to win the election, student loan marketplace LendEDU.com reports. That’s up from just 13 percent of the same age cohort who favored Clinton when Sanders was still in the running.