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https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/499451-seniors-will-make-donald-trump-a-one-term-president
TheHill.com
Seniors will make Donald Trump a one-term president
By Kevin Walling, opinion contributor 05/26/20 11:30 AM
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Despite being a senior citizen himself, many Americans in the presidents age group have recently soured on him, especially in light of his administrations response to COVID-19. Back in mid-March, Americans over 65 years old approved of Trumps handling of the outbreak at a higher rate than any other age group, according to Morning Consult. Just a month later, that specific COVID-19 response approval rating dropped 20 points and is now lower than any other age group, except for 18 to 29-year-olds.
By a 6-to-1 margin in that same survey, older Americans say that government should prioritize the coronavirus health response and mitigation of the virus above the economic focus. This makes total sense when you consider that, of the more than 90,000 people in the United States who have succumbed to the disease, the vast majority of victims have been over the age of 65. Every day brings new stories from across the country detailing truly tragic conditions in Americas nursing homes, from Arkansas to Pennsylvania, Louisiana to Texas. In Minnesota, nursing homes have been the site of 81 percent of the states COVID-19 deaths.
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Clearly these polls have spooked Trumps White House and campaign teams. Earlier this month, the administration hosted an Older Americans Month proclamation event, hoping to showcase the presidents commitment to the nations seniors. In previous administrations, this kind of proclamation was just issued to the press without much fanfare.
While these kinds of events are strong in terms of optics and might provide some kind of short-term gain among senior voters, Trump will face a major challenge with winning these disaffected older Americans back to his column. With early predictions that the United States may face a second wave of Coronavirus infections in the Fall, the incumbent president will likely struggle again in terms of messaging and mounting a comprehensive federal response.
In 2020, President Trump will also have something else to grapple with for the first time in his political career: a record. Running as a businessman in 2016, without any political or governmental experience provided then-candidate Trump the luxury of not having to defend positions or policies. Trumps FY 2021 federal budget released in February, before the real impacts of COVID-19 were being felt by Americans, already promised over $750 billion in cuts to Medicare and $844 billion in cuts to Medicaid over the next decade. There is no doubt the Biden campaign will make these drastic cuts to social safety net budgets as well as Trumps response to COVID-19 a centerpiece of his message and media campaign come November.
Kevin Walling (@kevinpwalling) is a Democratic strategist, Vice President at HGCreative, co-founder of Celtic Strategies, and a regular guest on Fox News and Fox Business and Bloomberg TV and Radio.
samsingh
(17,602 posts)ProudMNDemocrat
(16,828 posts)No matter what Trump says or does. He stokes their anger and feeds their emotional fears. And those numbers are NOT growing.
Cicada
(4,533 posts)Hard to know
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)out there. Yesterday this is what I observed as I went to do our Shopping. The Super Market Employees were all masked,this is a major change from the previous week when maybe 50% were wearing face coverings.
As far as Customers wearing coverings,not so good,maybe 60-70%,and this Market serves a very diverse Community which is 50+% POC and has taken the major hit as far as Covid Fatalities do to the number of Casino Employees living in that Community.
BTW,most of the Cashiers are Seniors and just by watching,they tend to back as far away as possible while scanning items from someone with out a face covering. If you want to here anti Trump commentary,you will get it from this group and it is very colorful.