… Seniors have voted for the Republican candidate in every presidential election since 2004, according to exit polls. They favored Trump by 8 points in 2016, according to NBC News exit polls.
But most surveys this month show Trump trailing Biden among this group, down by 2 points in a New York Times/Siena College poll, 4 points in a CNN poll, 8 points in an NBC/Wall Street Journal poll and 8 points in a Quinnipiac University poll. …
With voters under 45 increasingly preferring Democrats, losing senior citizens could choke off Trump’s path to re-election. Some allies worry that he’s antagonizing elderly voters with his mockery of 77-year-old Biden’s placid temperament and verbal stumbles with the nickname “sleepy Joe” and his persistent insinuations that Biden is losing his mental faculties. CONT.
Sahil Kapur, NBC News