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Young Australian males have made their admiration for Donald Trump and Peter Dutton clear, according to the latest round of political polling.
Essential Media's most recent research, published this week, provides a stronger idea of what men between the ages of 18 and 35 are thinking in the run-up to federal election.
'Our lads are... by far the demographic group most supportive of Peter Dutton,' the research firm's executive director Peter Lewis wrote in The Guardian.
'Their +20 net approval of the opposition leader [is] a full 40 points more positive than women the same age.'
Essential Media ran a double sample, speaking to 2,000 Australians in order to get an idea of young men's opinions.
'Trump's more muscular form of government sits well with our archetypical lad,' Mr Lewis said.
He said this is partially due to the US President embracing his 'rugged individualism and sense of grievance, egged on by American podcasters laced with a machismo nurtured by UFC'.
'On everything from world peace to climate change to the Australian economy these young men are twice as likely to see Trump as a positive influence compared with the broader population.'
Kaide (left) Taehlor (centre) and Neil (right) who all previously spoke to Daily Mail Australia are in the prime demographic the study claims leans towards political figures like Donald Trump and Peter Dutton - but they previously said they don't like being pigeonholed
Joe Rogan jumps out of his seat to greet Donald Trump upon his arrival at Madison Square Garden in November last year
Mr Lewis made it clear it didn't mean young men were a 'one-dimensional conservative cohort' and said they remain more progressive voters than older men.
However, he said there is a clear gender divide on voting intention for Generation Z, which is significantly more likely to vote Coalition and less likely to vote Green.
Meanwhile, the opposite appears to be happening between young women and Dutton, according to a 'focus group wrangler'.
'Women have always had to deal with danger in their lives so they have a better spidey [sixth] sense of people,' they told The Age.
'In the groups of women I'm seeing, there's something about Dutton they don't trust.'
Another focus group observer told the publication 'Australian women loathe Dutton for fear he will behave like Trump'.
Mr Lewis refers to Mr Dutton's policies as a 'Trump-lite agenda' and the correlation between a lack of women's support and Trump-like policies is something the Opposition Leader has been questioned on regularly in the last month.
On March 13, Mr Dutton was asked about his view on women when sitting down with Nine's Sylvia Jeffreys on her new podcast 'The Pay Off'.
Aussie lads are by far the demographic group most supportive of Peter Dutton (pictured), polling revealed on Tuesday
Pollster Peter Lewis said young men are twice as likely to see Trump as a positive influence compared with the broader population (Trump is pictured with podcaster Joe Rogan and UFC boss Dana White)
'There is concern among some young women... when they look to see what is happening over in America with the erosion of some of their rights,' she said.
'Can you sit here and promise a young Australian woman today that you won't claw back any of her rights?'
'Yes, I can,' Mr Dutton said.
'I think I've demonstrated over my lifetime that I take the protection of women and children particularly seriously.
'And I think it would be one of the most important tasks that I would apply myself to as prime minister.'
Jeffreys is not the first to question comparisons between Mr Dutton and Trump.
The Opposition Leader defended himself against comparisons to the US President during a 60 Minutes with Karl Stefanovic in February.
'From what Australians have seen thus far, they'd be forgiven for thinking that you are right up Donald Trump's a***,' Stefanovic said.
Mr Dutton fired back: 'Well, that might be a Labor line, but it's just not true.'
