Uh oh … the old folks choir ain’t singing the president’s song any more. We might be a lot of things and some amongst us suffer from closed-mind-itis, but more and more of us Van Winkles have done woke up.
“The latest Morning Consult poll found that 65-and-older voters prioritized defeating the coronavirus over healing the economy by nearly a 6-to-1 ratio,” he wrote. “And over the past month, they’ve become the group most disenchanted with Trump’s handling of the crisis. In mid-March, seniors were more supportive of Trump than any other age group (plus-19 net approval). Now, their net approval of the president has dropped 20 points and is lower than any age group outside of the youngest.”