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mystery-ak:
Biden campaign steps up efforts to convince older voters to abandon Trump
By
Ross O'Keefe
May 11, 2024 1:14 pm
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President Joe Biden’s campaign is escalating its outreach to senior citizens in a maneuver to flip a voting group that usually votes Republican.

Those outreach efforts include bingo games organized by volunteers in swing states and running ads during shows favored by older voters like the Price is Right.

Voters 65 and older have historically supported Republicans in the last two election cycles, but former President Donald Trump saw older voters’ support decrease from 2016 to 2020. A recent poll indicated Biden, who is four years older than Trump at 81, is leading Trump among older voters, 51% to 42%.

Voters 65 and older comprised 30.4% of the electorate in 2022. It’s also a demographic known to be more likely to vote.

“It’s a major turning point,” Biden pollster Celinda Lake told Bloomberg. “It’s really an inverse of the previous patterns, where Democrats traditionally do better with younger voters and have had trouble with seniors.”

Part of that shift may be because of Trump’s inconsistent messaging on Social Security or Medicare, which senior voters value. He said in March that “there’s a lot you can do in terms of entitlements, in terms of cutting,” before backtracking to say he would never “jeopardize or hurt Social Security and Medicare.”

Voters polled in seven swing-states favored Biden over Trump 45% to 39% for Social Security and Medicare’s preservation.

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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/presidential/3000752/biden-campaign-steps-up-efforts-to-convince-older-voters-to-abandon-trump/

LMAO:
We’re going to miss out on addressing the entitlement issue this round

collins:
well, I'm no Biden supporter by any means, but Brandon ought to shore up the youth/POC/women vote first before he tries to pick off a group of people that are the most vulnerable to high inflation and stagnation.

Wingnut:

--- Quote from: collins on May 12, 2024, 07:09:30 pm ---well, I'm no Biden supporter by any means, but Brandon ought to shore up the youth/POC/women vote first before he tries to pick off a group of people that are the most vulnerable to high inflation and stagnation.

--- End quote ---

Yup.  He needs to shore up the votes from the Hamas wing of the Dem party.

Hoodat:
A Conservative candidate would remind those Seniors being forced back to work because of inflation that those new taxes they're now paying on their Social Security benefits are being imposed on them exclusively by Democrats without a single Republican vote.

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