MSNBC’s Morning Joe panel reacted to new poll numbers that show Donald Trump is taking a sharp downward turn among older voters in the US as the demographic shifts their support to current Democratic president and 2024 contender Joe Biden — and they believe it may be Donald’s fault because he can’t seem to keep his mouth shut and keep his nasty insults to himself.
In the newest poll, Biden has a stunning 60 percent to 39 percent lead over Trump among American voters aged 65 and older. The Morning Joe panel believes Trump is losing his rear end among his own demographic, due in large part to his incessant attacks against President Biden’s age coupled with the constant chaos, mayhem, and scandal that follows the ex-president everywhere he goes, leading the older and wiser people of the US to steer clear of him.
Co-host Joe Scarborough opened the conversation with his panel this morning, saying, “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.”
“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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MSNBC contributor Sam Stein chimed in, “Yeah, I was picking up on this a couple of years ago. 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,” Stein 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 this cohort.”
MSNBC regular Katty Kay noted, “It’s that chaos factor that Nikki Haley is starting to play out in New Hampshire. 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.”
It seems that Donald Trump is digging his own grave in every aspect of his life at this point.
Watch the MSNBC discussion here:
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