week, not the fox poll but it came out this week and had some interesting looks at this where both trump, as you would expect among 18 to 29-year-olds add high unfavorables. biden is also under water. when you look at approval rating right now, biden s approval rating among 18 to 29-year-olds is worse than overall. this is supposed to be his core. this is how he got elected in 2020. and they are going away from him. the pollster harvard one of the rival networks talking about how there is this shift among basically warning democrats saying black and hispanic 18 to 29-year-olds are moving away from the party. not massive and a lot of them are becoming unfilliateed or independent and why people are looking at this as a specific biden problem. his election depends on overwhelming victory among yack
of this, get the message there. and so i think the real friction might be the administration, frankly. the people who do admissions, to what extent do they listen to students. to what extent are they with doing away with traditions that harbor town in place for a long time. harvard is older than this country. so it often takes a long time at that institution for there to be major changes, so what level of action do they take. they released a statement saying they are committed to diversity as a key part of their essential values, well how quickly do they act on that? what kind of tool do that use? the next question is will there be more lawsuits to come? if you find other ways to essentially do affirmative action without affirmative action, you might get sued. and we could get relitigating those same points over and over again. schools are trying to anticipate that as well. making sure that that s not the situation they end up right now,
to opportunity access to power, get rid of the measures that at the end of the day amount to affirmative action for white people. michael, the group that brought these cases, the people who wanted this outcome, what was their argument? their argument was that this was reverse discrimination that this was in violation of the constitution and that you need somehow, in our society, permeated as it is with rates only to have a color blind remedies, they ve been trying to get this result for decades the facts have not changed. the society has not changed except becoming more diverse, what has changed is who is on the court there is now a 60 vote supermajority, very strong conservatives here marching very closely together in lockstep in. that s what has changed and that is why this argument suddenly found receptive years. jeanne, you are at harvard
point to an example of a system, again a state system one that all taxpayers and community members pay into, right? see a massive drop in access from lower income communities and communities of color. they are worried that harvard will slide backwards now and start to look like what harvard used to look like. which was a lot wider, frankly. and so they will be pushing the administration, there have been closed-door meetings, for years now because this moment has been coming. they have been pushing on legacy admissions, this is why was he harvard and other schools move away from the s. a. t. naacp to get rid of standardized testing, there is going to be a lot of mishmash -ing and reinvention over the next couple of years, we will not fully understand what the impacts will look like for a couple of years time. it will take time. can i ask you what you think? you went to harvard while there may be the anxiety that schools could go backward to where they were, is there an opportunity tha
admissions and other things that give unfair advantages to communities of privilege. it s important because maybe one person is more qualified but that s only because they ve been given resources and opportunities. i think it s important to keep that in mind. i hope this is an opportunity for harvard to step up in other efforts, recruitment, but i think it would also be wrong of me to say that i m not scared. students across the country have been reacting to the supreme court s decision to gut affirmative action in higher education. back with us tonight my friend and colleague nbc correspondent antonia hylton she, has been speaking with students all day. antonia, it s summer but there are still kids on campus, you are at harvard, your alma mater, what have you been hearing? that s right, there are still students there, there are lots of high school students who are in camps and programs this summer who were planning to apply to harvard this fall, i got a chance to talk to a lot