When seniors no longer want to vote Trump

In the United States, seniors form a decisive electorate, particularly in the “Swing States”, these key states where the outcome of the election is likely to be decided. ” It is the electorate that votes the most, that is to say that it is over-represented in the polls. These are people who do not necessarily vote for a party, but for whom civic action is much more usual than among young people “, Underlines Lauric Henneton, questioned by Marie Normand, of the international service of RFI.

For this lecturer at the University of Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, ” losing votes in young people is less annoying because it represents less than thousands or millions of votes. A slight shift in the oldest represents a much more significant reservoir of voices. It is important as always in the United States because we are always part of an electoral geography and that it can make a difference, not at the national level, but at the level of certain states, and notably Florida, which is the key state par excellence, the tight state par excellence: the state where there are a lot of retirees.»

Postal voting

According to Lauric Henneton, also author of a book entitled “The end of the American dream”, Donald Trump’s management of the Covid-19 crisis weighs on the perception that seniors have of him. In particular his refusal to generalize postal voting for the most vulnerable.

« Trump is convinced that postal voting has little to do with health. Trump’s opinion and his stubbornness go wrong. This endangers the health of people who would like the possibility of postal voting to be generalized. These people say to themselves: “Our president takes our health lightly and is therefore a bad president who does not care for the well-being of his people.” ”

Decline among evangelicals

Among the categories of Americans concerned, there is a group of voters crucial to Donald Trump where the tenant of the White House retreats in the polls: the evangelicals. However, Lauric Henneton recalls, they are rather elderly people.

But according to the lecturer, ” It is not among the evangelicals that Trump is actually losing ground, it is among the elderly, in particular by his somewhat light management, we will say, of the Covid-19. It’s a matter of survival: they feel like he’s not taking care of them. This is a question we regularly ask in surveys : “Does the president care about people like me?” And there, we see that there is a hollow. Health issues are far ahead of the concerns of voters. »

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