‘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.among the over 65 crowd, and though carrying seniors alone won’t help Biden overcome issues surrounding his 2020 base, they do offer a degree of security in battlegrounds like Arizona, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.
Biden’s campaign believes that the president’s relative popularity with seniors could help Democrats beyond traditional swing states and expand the map to win Florida for the first time since 2012, even with the state’s rightward push in the 2022 midterm elections. Kondik argues that, like how polls undermined Trump’s support in 2016, voters of all demographics might be unwilling to talk to pollsters or participate in surveys for any number of reasons. Usually, participants are among the most plugged-in voters across the country, on both sides of the aisle.
Geller, a Trump pollster in 2016 and 2020, says Biden’s apparent support from seniors is to be expected.