… In a new national CNN poll released Tuesday morning, only 42% of seniors from all races approved of either the President’s handling of the coronavirus outbreak or his overall job performance. On both counts, that was his lowest rating among any group except adults 34 and younger — traditionally […] Read more »
Anxious About the Virus, Older Voters Grow More Wary of Trump
The coronavirus crisis and the administration’s halting response to it have cost President Trump support from one of his most crucial constituencies: America’s seniors. … For years, Republicans and Mr. Trump have relied on older Americans, the country’s largest voting bloc, to offset a huge advantage Democrats enjoy with younger […] Read more »
Trump needs two electoral blocs to win. The pandemic is driving a wedge between them.
President Trump has a math problem. Given his strategy to govern mostly for his base, Trump must walk an electoral tightrope to win in November. He cannot afford to lose voters motivated by economic issues. He also cannot afford to lose seniors, who supported him in 2016 by a nine-point […] Read more »
Trump campaign divided over how to attack Biden amid worries over troubling poll numbers
For weeks the Trump reelection effort has diligently cut, catalogued and pushed out viral videos of every verbal stumble Joe Biden makes in interviews, relentlessly pushing the idea that the presumptive Democratic nominee is mentally unfit for the presidency. … But behind the scenes, the offensive has become a point […] Read more »
Older voters could offer Biden a new path to the White House
The dominant assumption among Democrats for years has been that the best way to expand the Electoral College map is to expand the electorate by turning out millions of additional young people and minorities. But Joe Biden’s campaign may be pointing Democrats toward a different path to widening the presidential […] Read more »
Americans’ Retirement Outlook Largely Intact
Nonretired Americans’ expectations for what their income sources will be in retirement are broadly similar to a year ago. Most say they will rely to varying degrees on Social Security, retirement savings accounts, regular savings accounts or CDs, and part-time work. CONT. Lydia Saad, Gallup Read more »