7 hours agopresidential candidates try to attract elderly
Periskopi(6 years ago)
(6 years ago)On Friday, President Donald Trump campaigned in Florida, a state with one of the highest populations of elderly voters. The president promised he would protect the elderly Americans from pandemic. In the 2016 elections, Mr. Trump won the old man's vote with permission, but recent polls show that candidate [...]
On Friday, President Donald Trump campaigned in Florida, a state with one of the highest populations of elderly voters. The president promised he would protect the elderly Americans from pandemic. In the 2016 elections, Mr. Trump won the old man's vote by letter, but recent polls show that Democrat candidate Joe Biden is leading by a considerable margin between the Americans 65 and older.
This community of older people in Florida is traditionally a bastion of Republicans. But after the National Democratic Assembly in August, some residents expressed support for Mr. Biden, saying they were sick of President Trump. Patty Bair is community resident “The Village” in Florida.
We all wanted to know that we should vote against him”.
According to polls, Mr. Trump is losing support between 65 and older voters, a group that voted for him in 2016. Whit Ayres is a Republican strategist with the company “North Star Research”.
It is losing among the elderly in some countries, often by considerable margin. This is the result of minimizing pandemic while the elderly are the most endangered population. ”
Eager to win back the support of elderly voters, who make up about 23 per cent of the American electorate, Mr. Trump campaigned in Florida on Friday with a call to protect the American elderly.
I will protect you and fight for you with all my energy and obedience”, President Trump said.
He reiterated the promise he made a few days after leaving the hospital after infecting COVID-19, saying that the elderly will receive the same experimental drugs he was treated with.
We'll make it available and free for all those who need”, the president said of the treatment he received for the virus.
As the pandemic plays a role in the polls, support of elderly people for Mr. Trump has dropped since mid-2019. Another reason may be that pensioners now see him as a candidate more extreme than four years ago. Robert Griffin is with “Demochcy Fund Voter Study Group”
The most moderate subx0ds tend to get more votes. This is evident in all voters, as well as among the elderly. ”
This week, candidate Joe Biden also campaigned in Florida to win support from the elderly.
“To Trump, you have no value, I say without a joke. You're practically nobody. That's how he sees the elderly, so he sees you.”
Mr. Trump recently posted a memo with his opponent on Twitter in a wheelchair surrounded by pensioners. 74-year-old President often makes fun of Mr. Beden, who is 77-year-old, calling him “Joe sleeper”. Chris Cooper is a professor of political science at the University of West Carolina.
“Trump strongly supports the idea that Joe Biden is currently failing, simply because he is very old, implying without any proof that he has degentia. This is certainly not popular with older ones. ”
However, Mr. Trump's campaign is not giving up on the elderly, releasing ads this week targeting pensioners in countries known as battlefields.
