Back in January, the nonpartisan Pew Research Center published a shocking report about the growing number of Americans who are tuning out from our country’s increasingly toxic political culture. Instead of heeding Pew’s warnings, our always-on political pundits assured the pollsters that voter interest in the 2024 campaign would surge in the spring.

Now, just a week away from May, it’s safe to say the pundits were wrong about voter enthusiasm — and NBC News just released a new poll that proves it.

NBC’s latest national poll records voter interest in the 2024 presidential election slumping to a 20-year low. Joe Biden and Donald Trump’s big rematch may be generating hours of media content and miles of newsprint, but most voters just don’t seem to care.

Voters across the country have learned how to tune out the chaotic mess that is American politics in 2024, as much for their own mental health and happiness as anything else. The disconnect between the people and their government is a gap Democrats will need to bridge if President Biden hopes to secure a second term.

While 2024 marks a depressing low point for voter interest in politics, voter disaffection has been a........

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