Posted on 05/25/2020 7:11:56 PM PDT by Libloather
One of the most durable political assets that Republicans have enjoyed throughout the 21st century is their edge among Americans 65 and older, who tend to turn out at the polls more reliably any other group.
But with President Trump’s inept and erratic handling of the novel coronavirus pandemic, he is rapidly losing support among the age group most vulnerable to its ravages - which is a big warning sign to Republicans as they look to the fall. Trump has also been showing slippage in support among the next-oldest cohort, those 55 and older.
The shift has been showing up in a string of recent polls, reportedly including those that have been conducted by Trump’s own campaign. One of the most striking is a survey of 44 battleground House districts done by Democratic pollster Geoff Garin during the second week of May.
In those districts, voters over 65 said they had supported Trump in 2016 by a 22-point margin - 58 percent to 36 percent.
But this year, those same respondents are practically evenly divided, with 47 percent saying they are planning to vote for the president and 43 percent expressing an intention to cast their ballots for former vice president Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee. That is an enormous net swing of 18 percentage points.
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What crisis?
another Joseph Goebbels type big lie from the Wash Compost.
Doesn’t anyone there have any sense of honor, dignity, or pride at all?
Nancy is crashing and burning so the MSM has to step in ,LOL
How do they explain the recent gains for the GOP in those special CA elections?
OMFG libtard fantasy porn wet dreams.
Yeah he is losing support with the older folks. Cuomo is killing them off.
Uggggggghhhhhh!
The hissing from the snakes begins
Someone give her a mask
And the elderly who live in Dem states are no problem because their Dem Governors sent covid in to kill them off.
Hooray for media profits!
How does this reconcile with recent polls showing slight majority support of Trump’s handling of the virus?
And how does this reconcile with recent polls, showing Trump getting some of the highest job approval ratings of his presidency right now?
The most reliable GOP voters are WHO, George Will, Bill Kristol, Mittens???
they have been the most thoroughly brainwashed by the MSM.
I hate to say it, but that slide in support could be true.
OMGgggggggggggg
Fugly
We had a few on THIS site that were lapping up every damn word the MSM had to say and YES that worries me!!!
Written by a Karen.
…no, really.
Biden talking points already announced by his campaign.
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