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.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Holy Smokes! What a puss.
what would the wapo know about the republican’s most reliable voters?
“they have been the most thoroughly brainwashed by the MSM.
I hate to say it, but that slide in support could be true.”
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Well, they got the Dems shipping the covid right to ‘em and they Republicans telling ‘em stuff like “there are more important things than living” (TX Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick), so it would be somewhat understandable if they feel they’re getting the short end of the stick.
fake news from a super-liberal who hates Trump...
last year she wrote a ridiculous opinion piece begging Obammy to come back to politics and ‘lift us up again’ and trash Trump
Partisan Media Shills update.
President Trump handled this pandemic remarkably well.
Tell us more Karen...
funny right? POTUS acted fast as it was known COVID was serious and here in the US only to be mocked and called names by the left for “trying to take attention away from impeachment” and other leftests in the media poo pooing Corona and even encouraging people to go out and to GO TO CHINATOWN..lol
THe dem mayors and governors are who messed up the response to this, not POTUS.
President Trump handled this pandemic remarkably well.
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The Bezos Post again, huh?
Some people are just made for masks, right?? Lol!
If Karen Tumulty says it,
it’s got to be true.
The old ladies at my church think Biden is charming and can do no wrong.
They won’t believe anything negative about Biden.
Why are her looks relevant?
In other improbable news, the sun may not come up tomorrow.
More slippage from the GOP base for Trump? NOT! These idiots from the DC Compost, The LA and NY Slimes, and the rest of the enemedia keep posting this crap time and time again that parts of the GOP base are abandoning the president. They need to worry more about groping, racist Sleepy Joe and every time he opens his mouth because it is the RATS that have the leaky voter base especially in the Rust Belt battleground states.
It seems like the Democrats have a script about how poorly the President is Doing and how he’ll lose the election. Meanwhile they ignore special election victories by republicans in CA, WI, and other localities. It’s not even worth debating with her.
I’ve yet to understand what he’s done wrong.
If he put forth a Federal mandate the Left Democrats would call him a dictator.
If he let the governors do what they want with minimal Federal guideline then they’ll say he’s inept.
It’s the same BS the Left Democrats have been feeding us for almost four years.
The same crap the Left Democrats have been feeding us since Reagan.
They’re not. It’s her inner ugliness that repulses me...
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