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Donald Trump's losing baby boomers, silent generation to Kamala Harris (www.newsweek.com)

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Former President Donald Trump is losing older voters to Vice President Kamala Harris, a new poll shows.

A survey released by Emerson College on Thursday revealed that the majority of voters over 70 are supporting Harris, 51 percent, over Trump at 48 percent.

Those results show a major breakthrough for Harris, who has been able to surpass Trump's lead with older voters. Just last month, with President Joe Biden still in the race, 50 percent of voters over 70 supported Trump, while 48 percent of the age group backed Biden.

The over 70 category includes both baby boomers, those born between 1946 and 1964, as well as the silent generation, anyone born between 1925 and 1945.

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[-] zephorah@lemm.ee 75 points 3 months ago

Removing social security and or Medicare would quite literally kill a lot of these people. WTF did they think would happen?

[-] ech@lemm.ee 38 points 3 months ago

These people have been voting against their own well-being for decades.

[-] APassenger@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago

I think they expect it to gradually sunset and not impact them. Then they can leave "less of a deficit" for their kids.

I'd rather have the entitlements.

[-] zephorah@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

I’ve been paying the entitlement since age 17. If I don’t get it then I want a full refund check.

[-] nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 months ago

Most of them still will. But it won't take much of a shift in that demo to drastically shift the outcome of the election.

[-] stoly@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

It really is a matter of ten years and then we’re left with the youngest boomers who are basically ancient Gen X.

[-] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months ago

People don't vote for Trump for rational reasons. They vote for him to have their hate and resentment validated.

[-] sar1n@infosec.pub 16 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Except they are being lied to about medicare and social security NOT being cut

Edit: i pulled this from r/conservative

[-] JustARegularNerd@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago

I genuinely had to stop and think if that image was satirical, but nope, it's real

[-] sar1n@infosec.pub 7 points 3 months ago

Right? I was doing the same thing when i first came across it. Definitely not satirical

[-] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

1 and 2 are already a lie. They can't deport migrants because their voters need cheap migrant labor to not go out of business, and it would go against point 3, keeping things affordable. And they need the bogeyman. If there is no migrant threat there are no votes.

But nobody said the people voting for them were rationally thinking about these points.

[-] GiddyGap@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

Well, you wonder why they would rather have Trump than Biden then...

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