Shocking poll shows students at prestigious university miss presidential election for first time in 12 years

Students at the University of Notre Dame appear more willing to support former President Donald Trump, a shocking new poll finds.

The Irish Robber investigated 705 students who likely cast their votes for president between September 15 and 18.

The poll found that 47.6 percent of students supported Trump for president, while 45.9 percent supported Kamala Harris.

The results showed that 5.5 percent of students chose a candidate whose name did not appear in the poll, with only four votes for Jill Stein of the Green Party and two votes for Chase Oliver, a candidate for the Libertarian Party.

The poll results show a surprising shift toward Trump, despite the fact that Notre Dame students have favored the Democratic presidential candidate for more than 12 years.

Results from Notre Dame’s 2020 student body mock elections showed that 66 percent of students supported Joe Biden for president, while only 29 percent favored Trump.

A sham election in 2016 found that 59 percent supported Hillary Clinton and only 24 percent supported Trump.

The poll found that there is a gender gap among students: those who support Trump and those who support Harris.

Fifty-five percent of men chose Trump, while 35 percent of men chose Harris. Likewise, 57 percent of women on campus supported Harris, while only 38 percent supported Trump.

Harris needs the support of Catholic voters if she wants to win key swing states like Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.

The poll of Notre Dame students differs somewhat from polls of American Catholic voters in general.

An EWTN/RealClearPolitics poll of Catholic voters, 50 percent of Catholic voters plan to support Kamala Harris for president, while 43 percent support Trump.

The poll among 1,000 Catholic voters was conducted from August 28 to 30, 2024, with a margin of error of +/- 3 percentage points.