Voters over 70 are backing Harris over Trump, 51 to 48 percent, Emerson College poll finds
A new poll shows some baby boomers and members of the Silent Generation are switching allegiances from former President Donald Trump to Vice President Kamala Harris.
The Emerson College poll released Thursday shows voters over 70 backing Harris over Trump 51 to 48 percent. That’s a small but positive shift for Harris, as last month, 50 percent of the group supported Trump while 48 percent backed President Joe Biden, who dropped out of the race and endorsed Harris last month.
The group includes some baby boomers, who were born between 1946 and 1964, and the Silent Generation, born between 1925 and 1945.
I think a lot of people forget what the world was like when the older baby boomers came of age.
I mean yeah, the only people who could feasibly remember are starting to forget stuff.
Well, yeah, but there are books and stuff.
Yeah, but they’ve been burning them.
What do you mean
In their growing up years we had 170k soldiers killed, wounded, or missing in Korea. In their early adult years we had Vietnam, the draft, and Kent State.