{"id":2217093,"date":"2024-04-10T04:23:07","date_gmt":"2024-04-10T08:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/will-bidens-boomer-polling-bump-translate-to-senior-votes-in-november\/"},"modified":"2024-04-10T04:24:43","modified_gmt":"2024-04-10T08:24:43","slug":"will-bidens-boomer-polling-bump-translate-to-senior-votes-in-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/will-bidens-boomer-polling-bump-translate-to-senior-votes-in-november\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Biden&#8217;s popularity with the boomer generation sway senior voters in the upcoming election?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwill-bidens-boomer-polling-bump-translate-to-senior-votes-in-november%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2217093&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>President Joe Biden&#8217;s popularity is rising \u200bamong senior\u2062 citizens, who typically\u2064 lean right in their voting tendencies. Recent polls show Biden leading among those \u2062over 65, \u2064offering \u2062a\u200d potential advantage in battleground states. Despite\u2064 this, winning senior\u2062 voters alone may\u200d not be sufficient \u2064for Biden&#8217;s 2024 campaign aspirations. Monitoring shifting demographics and voter sentiments will be crucial for both\u200d Biden and Trump in \u200bthe upcoming election.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>As President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/joe-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Joe Biden<\/a>\u2018s popularity has dipped among young voters, he\u2019s outpacing past Democratic presidential candidates with the opposite demographic, senior citizens, who routinely vote to the right of the general electorate. <\/p>\n<p>A string of polls show the president leading former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Donald Trump<\/a> among the over 65 crowd, and though carrying seniors alone won\u2019t help Biden overcome issues surrounding his 2020 base, they do offer a degree of security in battlegrounds like Arizona, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. <\/p>\n<p>Adam Geller, a Republican pollster and CEO of National Research Inc., told the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em> that \u201chippie grandmas\u201d aging into the 65 and over demographic account for the leftward swing among seniors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday\u2019s seniors are yesterday\u2019s hippies, and so I subscribe to the theory that the Vietnam War protesters of the 1960s are today\u2019s 65-plus voters. Young seniors let\u2019s call them, and young seniors are still pretty liberal,\u201d he stated. \u201cIt\u2019s just the evolution of generational politics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 2020, exit polls showed Trump carrying 51% of the senior vote, with Biden pulling 48%, marking the strongest showing by a Democratic candidate among voters over 65 in nearly two decades. Fast forward to 2024, and polls conducted in recent months by the <em>New York Times<\/em>, Quinnipiac University, CNN, and the Daily Kos now show Biden leading Trump by a margin of up to 22 points among senior voters. Polls conducted by Fox News and Echelon Insights still show Biden trailing Trump among seniors.<\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s campaign believes that the president\u2019s relative popularity with seniors could help Democrats beyond traditional swing states and expand the map to win Florida for the first time since 2012, even with the state\u2019s rightward push in the 2022 midterm elections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDonald Trump is proudly running on a record of threatening Social Security and Medicare, and if he has the chance, will repeal the law President Biden passed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/star-of-sen-mark-kelly-campaign-ad-called-white-men-single-greatest-domestic-terrorist-group\/\" title=\"Star of Sen. Mark Kelly Campaign Ad Called White Men 'Single Greatest Domestic Terrorist Group'\">lower prescription drug costs<\/a> and insulin for seniors,\u201d Biden campaign spokesman Charles Lutvak told the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em>. \u201cThe stakes this November are higher than ever. President Biden has a proven record for seniors, and unlike Trump\u2019s failing campaign, our team is working to talk to these key voters across the battleground states to earn their support every single day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/video\/2024\/03\/11\/former-president-donald-trump-on-entitlements-theres-tremendous-numbers-of-things-you-can-do.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"suggested\">suggested<\/a> in a March interview he\u2019s open to changing entitlement programs for senior citizens, saying, \u201cThere is a lot you can do in terms of entitlements, in terms of cutting and in terms of also the theft and the bad management of entitlements.\u201d He later walked back those comments in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2024\/03\/14\/donald-trump-i-will-never-do-anything-jeopardize-hurt-social-security-medicare\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"separate interview\">separate interview<\/a>, pledging, \u201cI will never do anything that will jeopardize or hurt Social Security or Medicare,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n<p>Kyle Kondik, an elections analyst and the managing editor for <em>Sabato\u2019s Crystal Ball<\/em> at the University of Virginia\u2019s Center for Politics, stopped short of betting on data showing Biden gaining ground among seniors and Trump picking up young and black voters despite repeated showings in polls this cycle.<\/p>\n<p>Kondik argues that, like how polls undermined Trump\u2019s support in 2016, voters of all demographics might be unwilling to talk to pollsters or participate in surveys for any number of reasons. Usually, participants are among the most plugged-in voters across the country, on both sides of the aisle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are skeptical of poll findings that show Trump winning younger voters outright or making historic inroads with black voters. We are also skeptical of poll findings that suggest 65+ voters will vote bluer than the nation and\/or that show Biden winning that group,\u201d he wrote on April 4. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe continue to believe that the 2024 presidential election is likely to be very close and competitive and also that there is likely to be a lot of continuity between this election and what happened in 2016 and 2020\u2014when Trump was on the ballot each time and Biden was on the ballot in the latter election,\u201d Kondik continued. <\/p>\n<p>Geller, a Trump pollster in 2016 and 2020, says Biden\u2019s apparent support from seniors is to be expected.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt doesn\u2019t mean doom and gloom for Republicans. It just means that this has happened,\u201d Geller said. \u201cIt\u2019s not a foregone conclusion that Joe Biden\u2019s disastrous policies have resonated with them. Some of them he\u2019s bankrupting and making them increasingly unsafe. So it\u2019s not to say that it\u2019s a done deal. It\u2019s to say that there\u2019s more to a senior than meets the eye and that a senior from 15 years ago isn\u2019t the same as a senior today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden is 81 years old and will be 82 if sworn in for a potential second term in office, and his growing popularity with baby boomers can be traced back to his efforts to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-dem-threatens-reconciliation-over-hbcu-funding\/\" title=\"House Dem Threatens Reconciliation Over HBCU Funding\">lower healthcare costs<\/a> for older people, which has earned him the endorsement of the Alliance of Retired Americans.<\/p>\n<p>Dating back to his 2023 State of the Union, the president has made protecting and strengthening Medicare and Social Security a central pillar of his reelection push while claiming that Trump and Republican lawmakers are moving to cut funding for those programs. Biden also touts his administration\u2019s efforts to lower the costs of prescription drugs, including the $35 cap placed on monthly insulin prescriptions, and freed up $37 billion in federal grants to promote independent living services for seniors in all 50 states.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><strong>CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The president spoke about his efforts to build up the care economy in a speech at Union Station on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSeniors and people with disabilities, we\u2019re going to expand Medicaid Home Care Services and reduce that 700,000 person backlog,\u201d Biden told the crowd of care workers. \u201cThat would allow more folks to live and work in their own communities with dignity and independence. More <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republicans-counter-biden-with-928-billion-plan-for-actual-infrastructure\/\" title=\"Republicans Counter Biden With 8 Billion Plan For \u2018Actual Infrastructure\u2019\">home care workers<\/a> will start getting better pay and benefits and the dignity they deserve.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden&#8217;s approval among young voters may have decreased, but he is gaining ground with senior citizens, a demographic that typically leans towards the right. Recent polls indicate Biden is ahead of former President Donald Trump among those over 65. While winning over seniors is crucial, it&#8217;s not the only factor determining the election&#8217;s outcome<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2645,"featured_media":2217094,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/AP24100646865247.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2217093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/AP24100646865247.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2217093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2645"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2217093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2217093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2217094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2217093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2217093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2217093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}