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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Project2025 wants to make cuts to SocialSecurity and Medicare, two things that Boomers rely on heavily.
They also want to tax employee benefits.
Wait, sorry, I’m an accountant in another country; you guys don’t tax employee benefits? Lucky.
Based upon the down votes, I am adding an edit: Lucky because it can get nit picky for an accountant, not lucky because your government doesn’t care for you. But I mis spoke and it was off topic, so I accept my comment wasn’t appreciated.
We don’t tax them because they are an end run around having universal healthcare paid through taxes. If it was taxed, we might just decide to go single payer through taxes instead and that would cut into insurance provider profits!
In spite of what Republicans say, the overall tax burden in the US is lower than most other developed countries:
https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/briefing-book/how-do-us-taxes-compare-internationally
Our taxes generally pay for fewer services, though, so we get to pay more for things like our absurd health care system, which ties the ability to afford health care to being employed.
They only want to tax employee benefits above $12,000. The point of it seems to be to limit how much health insurance people get, so it limits their access to healthcare.
If all employer-provided health insurance was taxed (not just the amount above $12,000) it would be a good thing in the long run, because it would disentangle health insurance from employment.
it would disentangle health insurance from employment.
Not unless there’s a viable alternative… If put into effect today it would just be the equivalent to a giant cut for 15 million people.
Stupid people vote against themselves over culture war issues that don’t affect them. They don’t think. They just get angry.
Common symptom of chronic lead poisoning. Remember the era the boomers lived in.
I wonder why. Someone else pointed out plans to cut medicare and social security, but that’s not new for Trump or the GOP; they’ve been fucking those programs up for at least 20 years, and that never bothered boomers and Republican silent gen before. What changed?
I’ll take a guess that it’s because he’s been repeating himself so often. They’ve tuned out any media not in their bubble, so all the reports of what a shit stain of a person he is are ignored or dismissed. But his own rallies? His own interviews? His own statements? He just keeps bringing out the same tired arguments and complaints that he has for the last 8 years, and he is much lower energy now. And it’s happening often enough that they can’t fully ignore it. He has finally committed the most unforgivable cardinal sin to them, he has become boring.
Yeah, you may be right. We’ve had, what, almost a decade of candidate/president Trump now? Even the most successful TV shows in history are pretty much out of gas by this point, there’s just not really anything left to say that hasn’t already been said. Even Fox news shakes up its talking heads every now and then, and it has the advantage of being “news” (massive sarcasm quotes there). Trump isn’t bringing anything new to the table, it’s the same old dog and pony show, and the tricks have gone stale. Makes sense.
He’s starting to sound like a broken record. A bitter, angry, broken one. At first his brand of populism was very fresh and charming to the right. But like the other right wing populist counterparts in Europe, I think Trump too is getting tiresome to listen to. It’s been ten years of the same shtick and not much to show for it.
Technically, everyone is losing baby boomers and the silent generation.
Not what the phrase mean in this context. The ratio I’m which they distribute the remaining votes is changing. So, one of the sides is losing more of them than the others.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nonsense
just because something doesn’t make sense doesn’t mean it is funny
Baby boomers and silent generation are both quite old, and so there is a third option; both sides losing boomers and silent generation to them dying of old age/natural causes.
Right, which is why the comment you replied to was about the comparative losses
President Joe Biden still in the race, 50 percent of voters over 70 supported Trump, while 48 percent of the age group backed Biden.
Even under Biden running, felon Drink Bleach having only a 2% margin on the boomers - his base - could not have been that comforting.
But, gee, is it ever much better with Harris! Rock on!
I won’t get complacent. I’ll vote. Have a great day!
Boomers lean R/Maga but not enough that I’d call that his base.
His base is more cultural than generational.
Anecdotally, I know a bunch of boomers and very few are MAGAts. Heck, my uncle still calls himself a “hippie”. He pretty much is (not a flower child, but definitely in other ways).
