Will Biden’s boomer polling bump translate to senior votes in November?

Published April 10, 2024 4:00am ET



As President Joe Biden‘s popularity has dipped among young voters, he’s outpacing past Democratic presidential candidates with the opposite demographic, senior citizens, who routinely vote to the right of the general electorate.

A string of polls show the president leading former President Donald Trump among the over-65 crowd, and though carrying seniors alone won’t help Biden overcome concerns surrounding his 2020 base, it does offer a degree of security in battlegrounds such as Arizona, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.

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