Fast forward 55 years, and youre 73, right about the median age for surviving baby boomers.
Theres no known way to stop old people from voting.
After all, he won those categories in 2020, though byreduced marginsfrom 2016.
Former President Donald Trump speaks in Detroit on Aug. 26, 2024.Tom Brenner/The Washington Post/Getty Images
But not so fast this time remember that tune fromHairon the radio.
Were turning out more older voters all the time about 10,000 people a day pass the 65-year mark.
And increasingly, theyre starting to make that caricature older voters are more conservative irrelevant.
Older voters come from the past but the past they come from is changing.
Which means new polling indicates that something like a silver wave may be building as November approaches.
In North Carolina, another swing state crowded with retirees, shesup by 10 pointsamong older voters.
In Maine, statistically the oldest state in the union,Harris ledby 20 points among older voters.
But I think its safe to say Trump shouldnt count on older voters.
Some of this can be explained by simple self-interest.
As the political analyst Nate Cohnpointed outearlier this year, were not Archie Bunker thats our dads.
But its not just the issues.
To us, Trump seems … not normal.
Remember we were born under Truman and Eisenhower.
Consider, for instance, Trumps endless insistence that everything is rigged against him.
(Think more like Carole King, who played at the Swifties for Kamala call.)
Dont sleep on the elders.
Hes also the Schumann Distinguished Scholar at Middlebury College.
