College Republicans from two Ivy League universities have declined to endorse Donald Trump.
The Harvard Republican Club issued the most scathing rebuke, failing to endorse a candidate for the presidency for the first time since its founding in 1888. The organization posted a Facebook statement saying that Trump was “a threat to the survival of the Republic” and that his views “are antithetical to our values not only as Republicans, but as Americans.”
In a less aggressive statement, Princeton’s College Republicans said they had decided not to take a “definitive position” on Trump’s candidacy, essentially urging students to vote their conscience. They said they would focus particularly on Congressional campaigns in New Jersey and the Northeast.
Other Ivy League universities’ remain on the fence.
Earlier this week, Columbia University’s College Republicans wrote on Facebook that they were still deliberating over endorsement options. The Republican Club at Trump’s alma mater told The Tab it had not yet made a formal endorsement, though the group’s executive director told ABC News that “everybody hates Trump.”
So far in the Ivy League, Trump has managed to gain only the support of Yale’s College Republicans. They wrote that “while not every member of our organization supported Trump in the primary, as an organization and branch of the GOP we support Republicans up and down the ballot.”
Trump and Clinton have both failed to excite millennials, who flocked to Bernie Sanders. One poll, conducted in late July, found that millennials preferred Lord Voldemort to both nominees.
