Mod: Low Rated Don stepped on the third rail of American politics and seniors now want to dump Trump. Didn't anyone tell the orange fool you just don't mess with Social Security and Medicare?
Trump’s Support Collapses As 53% Of Seniors Definitely Won’t Vote For Him (
PoliticsUSA.comlink): A new poll reveals that more than half of all senior voters say that they definitely will not vote for
Trump in
2020, and seniors have turned against
Trump.
Trump beat
Hillary Clinton by eight points with seniors (53%-45%) in 2016, which was lower than seniors support of
Romney over
Obama in 2012 (56%-44%).
Trump’s support with seniors has totally flipped. It has gone from 52% support to 53% definitely not voting for him in 2020.
Republicans have banked on seniors being more conservative and outperforming their nominee’s approval rating.
Trump is doing worse with seniors than his overall approval rating. The thirty-four percent who say that they will definitely vote for him is less than the 37%-40% range that
Trump approval has settled into.
If Trump Loses Seniors, He Loses The White HouseRepublicans have intentionally focused their voter suppression efforts on younger people and minorities because those are the two growing groups of voters who tend to vote
Democratic. The
Republican Party has gone older, whiter, and more rural under
Trump.
Republicans need seniors to win. If voters over age 65 support
Trump in smaller numbers,
Republicans will lose the
White House, the
Senate, and
Democrats will keep the
House.
Horrible News For Trump As Just 12% Say They Have Greatly Benefited From His Economy (
PoliticsUSA.comlink): The
Monmouth University Poll found: 12% of
Americans say that their family has benefited a great deal from recent growth in the
U.S. economy and another 31% say they have received some benefit from the economic upturn. A majority, though, say they have been helped either not much (27%) or not at all (27%) from the nation's macroeconomic growth.
These results are nearly identical to
Monmouth Polls taken in 2018 as well as just before
Trump took office in January 2017. Only 34% of those earning less than $50,000 a year and 42% of those earning between $50,000 and $100,000 say they have benefited at least somewhat from the growing economy. This contrasts with those earning more the $100,000, where a majority (58%) say they have benefited.
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Trump and the
Republicans think that they can run on the economy in 2020, but the problem is that the majority of
Americans don’t feel like their own pocketbooks have prospered under
Trump. When
Trump talks about the economy, he always talks about the stock market and the unemployment rate. Most
Americans don’t own stocks, but they are worried about healthcare and being able to afford to pay their bills.
The economy didn’t work as a strategy for
Congressional Republicans in 2018, because people don’t feel like they are doing better under
Trump. Unless you are rich,
Trump’s economy really isn’t that good. The one thing that
Republicans thought could save them may not matter at all to voters in 2020.
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