Vice President Harris’s polling with young men is raising alarm bells for Democrats as the campaign works to keep cracks from forming in the party’s coalition less than two weeks out from Election Day.

The gender divide has been a glaring issue for both campaigns, as women tack toward Harris and men turn to former President Trump. But while Harris boasts a big edge among young voters broadly, her polling with young men, particularly young men of color, could create an opening for Trump.

“It’s extremely serious,” said Mike Madrid, a Republican strategist who co-founded the anti-Trump Lincoln Project. “If Donald Trump wins, this is how he wins.”

A Yale University poll this month found Harris led Trump among both young men and women, but while she led by a substantial 32 points among female registered voters under 30, she led by just around 5 points among male voters in the same age bracket.

This fall’s Harvard Youth Poll, published last month, also found Harris had the edge with young voters broadly, but while she had a whopping 47-point edge among likely female voters under 30, she was just 17 points up among their male counterparts.

The trend can also be seen among young Black and Latino men, two critical groups in the Democratic coalition. A GenForward survey released this week found that nearly a quarter of young Black men say they are backing Trump, while 44 percent of young Latino men said the same.

A report published Tuesday by the left-leaning think tank Data for Progress found that young women sided with Harris by a 37-point margin, but young men were evenly split, with 48 percent for Harris and 48 percent for Trump.

Harris’s allies note that the campaign is still generally leading with the demographic, though they acknowledge that they also must continues reaching it. Last week, they launched a series of ads on Yahoo Sports and the sports betting platform DraftKings, aimed specifically at young........

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