Cheerful Charlie
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https://www.alternet.org/2019/08/it...mographic-that-could-kill-his-2020-hopes-wsj/
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Much ink has been spilled about the decline of the Republican Party’s support among women. The GOP lost the female vote in the 2018 midterm elections by 19 points, and President Donald Trump all but certain to lose that demographic once again in the 2020 presidential election.
But according to the Wall Street Journal, women are not the only major voting bloc that Trump has to worry about. He is also slipping among senior citizens.
Elderly voters backed Trump 52 to 45 in the 2016 election. But according to a WSJ/NBC poll taken in June, Trump’s approval with senior citizens is only 2 points higher than the national average — and these voters want him defeated in 2020 by a margin of 48 to 41.
Trump cannot win re-election without solid support from elderly voters. The WSJ/NBC poll finds that Trump’s approval with voters aged 18 to 34 is just 33 percent, and Democratic candidates have a broad package of policies attractive to younger voters like student loan forgiveness and climate action.
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Younger voters, Generation X, Millennials, and Generation Z in the 2018 elections turned out in larger numbers than the Baby Boomer and Silent generation. Educated Suburban voters abandoned the GOP in drives.
The question is, when the numbers don't work for Trump come 2020, what will Trump do? What craziness will a desperate Trump resort to? By 2020, it looks like any Democrat could beat Trump. Sponge Bob Squarepants will be able to beat Trump in 2020.
The GOP's attacks on abortion, birth control, Planned Parenthood and Obamacare may very well energize Trump hostile women voters, ensuring an end to women voter apathy. The horrors at the border will energize the Hispanic voters as well.
Will Faux Nooz program hosts be committing hari kari on air the day after election day?
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Much ink has been spilled about the decline of the Republican Party’s support among women. The GOP lost the female vote in the 2018 midterm elections by 19 points, and President Donald Trump all but certain to lose that demographic once again in the 2020 presidential election.
But according to the Wall Street Journal, women are not the only major voting bloc that Trump has to worry about. He is also slipping among senior citizens.
Elderly voters backed Trump 52 to 45 in the 2016 election. But according to a WSJ/NBC poll taken in June, Trump’s approval with senior citizens is only 2 points higher than the national average — and these voters want him defeated in 2020 by a margin of 48 to 41.
Trump cannot win re-election without solid support from elderly voters. The WSJ/NBC poll finds that Trump’s approval with voters aged 18 to 34 is just 33 percent, and Democratic candidates have a broad package of policies attractive to younger voters like student loan forgiveness and climate action.
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Younger voters, Generation X, Millennials, and Generation Z in the 2018 elections turned out in larger numbers than the Baby Boomer and Silent generation. Educated Suburban voters abandoned the GOP in drives.
The question is, when the numbers don't work for Trump come 2020, what will Trump do? What craziness will a desperate Trump resort to? By 2020, it looks like any Democrat could beat Trump. Sponge Bob Squarepants will be able to beat Trump in 2020.
The GOP's attacks on abortion, birth control, Planned Parenthood and Obamacare may very well energize Trump hostile women voters, ensuring an end to women voter apathy. The horrors at the border will energize the Hispanic voters as well.
Will Faux Nooz program hosts be committing hari kari on air the day after election day?
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