Trump's attack on Biden's age is blowing up in his face big time: Morning Joe
Reacting to new polling showing Donald Trump losing older voters to President Joe Biden by a stunning margin, the panel on MSNBNC's "Morning Joe" suggested the former president is scaring away a key voting block he needs in his third bid for the Oval Office.
Noting that in the new poll, Biden leads 60 percent to 39 percent among voters over 65, the panel agreed that Trump's attacks on Biden's age may be a major factor along with the chaos that always accompanies Trump is scaring off older voters.
"I want us to talk about this part of it, because everybody is focusing on the younger voters who right now are not moving towards him as much as they thought," co-host Scarborough prompted his panel. "They're going to come home. They just will. You look at this number though: voters 65 and older, Joe Biden, 60 percent, Donald Trump — Sam, nobody expected this, but we have seen this. Older voters have been moving toward Joe Biden steadily for quite some time, and of course, as we know, older voters? They vote."
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"Yeah, I was picking up on this a couple of years ago," contributor Sam Stein offered. "The New York Times did a story about who was actually concerned about Trump's legal troubles and if they thought they were serious, and we saw an age breakdown; 65 and older, way more concerned about it than the younger generations that kind of piqued my interest."
"Maybe they lived through Watergate and they understand the severity of it," he added. "You've seen it in poll after poll after poll, where more conservatives, traditional Republicans are backing Joe Biden. There's a number of theories around it. Maybe the age attacks on Biden are actually offending."
"It's that chaos factor that Nikki Haley is starting to play out in New Hampshire," MSNBC regular Katty Kay stated. "We keep hearing people talk about, you don't want the chaos of Donald Trump. If you are getting older — chaos is scary for everybody — but I think it's particularly for older people when you're feeling more frail and fragile about the world anyway."
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