Republicans have carried voters over 65 in every presidential election since 2000, but a new poll shows Harris with the advantage.

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·
    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.eeEnglish
      38·
      3 months ago

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

      • APassenger@lemmy.world
        13·
        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·
          3 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
        3·
        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·
          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.

    • Diplomjodler@lemmy.world
      17·
      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·
      3 months ago

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

      Edit: i pulled this from r/conservative

        • sar1n@infosec.pub
          7·
          3 months ago

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

      • SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world
        8·
        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.