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Former President Donald Trump is losing older voters to Vice President Kamala Harris, a new poll shows.

A survey released by Emerson College on Thursday revealed that the majority of voters over 70 are supporting Harris, 51 percent, over Trump at 48 percent.

Those results show a major breakthrough for Harris, who has been able to surpass Trump's lead with older voters. Just last month, with President Joe Biden still in the race, 50 percent of voters over 70 supported Trump, while 48 percent of the age group backed Biden.

The over 70 category includes both baby boomers, those born between 1946 and 1964, as well as the silent generation, anyone born between 1925 and 1945.

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[-] Nougat@fedia.io 13 points 4 months ago

Technically, everyone is losing baby boomers and the silent generation.

[-] 14th_cylon@lemm.ee 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Not what the phrase mean in this context. The ratio I'm which they distribute the remaining votes is changing. So, one of the sides is losing more of them than the others.

[-] PugEnjoyer 3 points 4 months ago

Baby boomers and silent generation are both quite old, and so there is a third option; both sides losing boomers and silent generation to them dying of old age/natural causes.

[-] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

Right, which is why the comment you replied to was about the comparative losses

[-] PugEnjoyer 3 points 4 months ago

Right, which is why I explained that the comment that they were replying to was a joke about the absolute losses

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