Mod: Those of us old enough to remember the Richard Nixon impeachment have lived through all of this before, and according to new polling dumping Trump is not a big problem for boomers. We're talking old hat here. Donald can talk about "witch hunts" all day long and most of us will just think of Nixon. But aren't folks over 65 supposed to be more Trump sympathetic? No longer. Blame it on Tricky Dick.Voters Over the Age of 65 Remember Nixon—and Want to Impeach Donald Trump (Fortune link): Two new polls show that
President Donald Trump is losing the support of the key demographic groups that propelled him to the
White House in 2016: suburban woman, white
Americans without college degrees, and now voters over the age of 65.
A new
Quinnipiac Poll found the majority of older voters support impeaching and removing
Trump from office, the highest support of any age group. The results indicate that the president may be losing the backing of a group that has long been essential to the success of
Republicans.
According to the survey, 51% of voters over the age of 65 believe that Trump should be “impeached and removed from office,” compared with 47% of 18 to 34 year-olds. Nearly six in ten voters over the age of 65 support the ongoing impeachment inquiry in general. “
Americans over 65 were all around when
Nixon got impeached. They know what the process is. It’s not unfamiliar to them,” said
Robert Shrum,
Director of the Center for the Political Future and the
Unruh Institute of Politics at
USC.
A
New York Times/Siena College poll out last week found that
Americans above the age of 65 were the most likely age group to say they were following the discussion around impeachment very closely.
They were also the most likely demographic, at 36%, to say they strongly support impeaching and removing the president from office. “These are a group of people who predominantly lived through
Watergate and the
Clinton impeachment. They’ve seen this before and they have a more historic view,” said
Joe Trippi, a political strategist who ran campaigns for
Alabama Senator Doug Jones and 2004 presidential hopeful
Howard Dean. “They have more of a sense of history.”
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