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Donald Trump lost the support of older Americans.
Many of them switched sides to give Joe Biden the victory.
America’s 55 million people over 65 are a heavy voter group.
They have hardly been noticed in the Swedish coverage of the US elections. But in the US media articles such as “Why retirees leave Trump” have been read.
Opinion polls showed before the election that Joe Biden would take home a large majority of the 65-plus votes, a first for a 20-year-old Democrat.
American Elders It is an important group of voters not only because they are very numerous, but because they have the highest turnout, about 70 percent.
There was no landslide victory for Biden, Trump barely won among seniors according to a New York Times poll. But it lost so much support among the elders compared to the last election that it became a major factor behind Joe Biden’s victory.
I’m thinking about My meetings with over 90 people in nursing homes and outside of polling stations in Pennsylvania and Alaska during previous election campaigns in the United States. They were so tough, so talkative, and so wonderful to talk to.
Donald Trump lost the support of older voters by mocking the insane and confused Joe Biden.
Calling the former vice president “Sleepy Joe” and saying “he hardly knows he’s alive” is said to have failed the important group of voters.
Trump refused to stop, despite appeals from the staff, as well as his refusal when they wanted him to make amends with Cindy McCain, 66, the widow of Republican presidential candidate John McCain who slandered Trump.
Cindy McCain chose Joe Biden as her candidate.
– For Trump, you are interchangeable and easy to forget. You are not for him. That’s how he looks at seniors and that’s how he looks at you, Joe Biden said when he visited a Florida nursing home after Trump claimed the corona virus “affects virtually no one.”
Trump’s handling of the pandemic is cited as the main reason many of the older voters abandoned him. Joe Biden has made it clear that he advocates a completely different approach, among other things, by wearing a mouth guard when Donald Trump almost never does.
What would have been better with a younger Democratic nominee in place of Joe Biden is considered by many in Sweden to be so natural that it hardly needs to be said.
But what if it was Joe Biden, 77, who was the right person to win over a large enough portion of Trump’s top voters among those over 65? That a senior politician was needed who could unite the country?
The best readers understand this. Bo writes:
“Nelson Mandela’s age was never discussed and no one questioned (rightly) that he was the right person to run the country. He was 76 when he took office and sat for five years, that is, until he was 81 ”.
Jörgen’s email: “Don’t forget the legendary West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, who turned 87 before leaving office. It was largely he who led the successful rebuilding of West Germany after World War II. “
✓ In the United States, 25 percent of those who vote are 65 or older. High participation means that the group has a greater influence than its participation in the population shows.
✓ The so-called mountain of meat looks different in the United States than in Sweden. As we talk about the 40s, their “baby boomers” were born between 1946 and 1964. 10,000 people turn 65 every day in the United States.
✓ Most Americans over the age of 65 tend to vote Republicans. In 2016, Donald Trump received nine percentage points more votes among them than Hillary Clinton. In this year’s election, the lead against Biden fell to three percentage points.
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