https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-virus-outbreak-seniors-florida-michael-pence-b8bbfd3a87dc290a84b9ed9915a4cf63
They remain a huge chunk of the electorate. Pew estimates that nationwide, nearly 1 in 4 eligible voters will be 65 and older. It’s the highest level on record, going back to 1970. But whatever improvement he saw is now in jeopardy. The president’s own COVID-19 infection has refocused attention on the virus and his handling of it. If the 74-year-old Trump can’t safeguard his own health, some wonder, how can he be trusted to protect other older adults who are far more vulnerable?
The Morse family, which developed the community northwest of Orlando, has given hundreds of thousands of dollars to Republican campaigns over the years. During the 2008 presidential race, GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin drew a stadium-sized crowd with 60,000 residents flocking to see her in one of the community’s town squares.
It’s not that there weren’t Hillary Clinton supporters in The Villages in 2016, said Chris Stanley, president of the community’s Democratic Club. There were. She’s seen research that shows a softening in Trump’s older base, both nationally and in Florida — especially with women. In 2018, according to AP VoteCast, a survey of the American electorate conducted by NORC at the University of Chicago for The Associated Press, older Republicans thought immigration was the nation’s most important issue, while older Democrats said health care was. But this year, with the pandemic, concern about health care has become a top issue for both.
For the golf cart caravan, she wore a T-shirt that said “Team Fauci,” referring to Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s leading infectious-disease expert. “I trust the scientists and the doctors. I don’t trust Trump.” The hostility that Hicks bemoans has played out even in “the friendliest town,” where Villagers who are Trump enthusiasts have held their own golf cart parades.
Wise believes in small government and lower taxes, and she’s worried about the summer’s recent nationwide protests, a few of which have turned violent. She recognizes that Trump can be abrasive, but it doesn’t bother her, and she questions media reports that Trump had called servicemen and women “losers.” Trump wouldn’t do that, she said.
Meanwhile WHO says lockdowns are dangerous and elsewhere in the state...
Hmm. I know this is only anecdotal, but all of the seniors I know are voting Trump. My mother was a lifelong Democrat and she loves him.
A few old farts. This is less than a mile from Mexico along the Texas border. Biden taking the Mexican vote for granted.
Picture from a different news outlet showed there were 10 golf carts in this caravan. Nice angle though. 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Uh huh sure! The villages today!
why will you not report that biden says citizens are not entitled to know his policy positions?
Hmmm well I dont think this is 100% accurate... i didnt vote for trump in 2016 because I was not yet citizens status... now that Im a citizen Im voting Trump in 2020.. so i wonder how many like me you are not taking into consideration
Huh? There are 157,000 Residents in The Villages. 600 golf carts with 2 passengers in each comes to 600 Biden voters out of 157,000 residents. Why is this news?
Older Americans hold on to the past without realizing that the future is theirs too. Anyone that doesn’t look like them or talk like them is viewed with suspicion, fear and distrust. They need to open their mind to possibilities. Humanity is blossoming.
Racism like the U.S. Constitution is living, breathing, and ever changing with the times but never leaving its core, racial hatred backed by social-economical-political-judicial power. Today's racism replaced deep woods lynching with an open and hostile systemic and widespread...
Wrong. We are still here.
Lol, really.. the buzz around most supermarkets, doctors offices, etc is the r fed up with violence on their streets, the left wing trying to tear down everything they have known as normal in their lives for years& years and u say they are not voting for trump?! 🙄🙄😂😂😂😂😂
Yeah, they were killed in the Nursing Homes where coronavirus patients were housed. It’s kind of hard to vote when you’re dead.
Golf carts don't sink
He is helping send older Americans to grave with Covid-19
We changed history in the 60’s. The Civil Rights Act, The Voting Rights Act, ending the war in Vietnam, Women’s Rights. We changed our democracy when we were in our 20’s in the 60’s. Let’s change the world in our 60’s in 2020. November 3rd - Biden/Harris.
Keep trying with your FakeNews. You are doing the same thing you did in 2016. You produced your fake polls and news then told us how Trump had no chance. Prepare to shock your idiots once again, with results.
There were masses to greet Pence at The Villages.
Seniors voted Trump. Seniors die of COVID19 in droves. Trump thinks COVID19 is less serious than flu. Biden really doesn’t. Its not that difficult to know who you should vote for, seniors, is it?
That’s Because Early On In The Pandemic, Some Republicans Were Willing To Sacrifice America’s Elderly At The Cost Of Opening And Doing Business; And The Ones Who Didn’t Die From It, Or Survived It So Far Are None Too Pleased.🤷♂️
Lol 10 golf carts is a parade?
She's a leftist so the story is mostly made up.
Not taking Covid seriously and threatening our social security by promising to eliminate the payroll tax was sure to lose him votes. WeWantHimDefeated
I'm a senior and I'm for Trump and will never back down
Five golf carts.
Telling grandma to die for the economy probably doesn't make the most amount of allies
Wait a minute so 300 carts and VP pence was in the same neighborhood? Who is lying
Just wanted to do a follow up to your story: 3k people for Mike Pence...
LOL unreal, anything to try and get people NOT to vote because you want Biden to win and raise your TAXES
Are you also showing the LONG lines at The Villages for VP Pence? Of course not...
It’s a beautiful thing! Go JoeBiden !!!
sucks
The success of Trump - even allowing for the absurd vagaries of the electoral college - indicates a large scale mental retardation of the American electorate. He wouldn't have a - insincere - prayer of winning an election in any other country.
Right, because Trump's aides are really feeding AP internal research data....
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Older Americans should wake up. The Democrats sent older Americans to nursing homes with the China Virus, knowing our older population was the most vulnerable at the time, causing others to become infected. Then, massive deaths occurred of our elderly.
Idiots, Trump supporters are everywhere. It just that they don’t talk to pollsters. Trump wins and it won’t even be that close. MAGA🇺🇸
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No- it’s Jst tht Seniors r not telling pollsters thy r voting for Trump, because thy r scared. Thy C ppl getting assaulted daily for wearing a Trump hat,so thy aren’t telling anyone their with Trump. But thy r
Everybody knows,joe biden soon soon Will be in the white house 👌👏
Exactly like Trump cut the Pandemic team, Trump's 2019 budget slashed $26 billion from programs related to SocialSecurity — and sought to reduce future Medicare health coverage. TheVillagesNews Florida Sanford Orlando Miami TampaBay SouthFlorida
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