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

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

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 issues sur­round­ing his 2020 base, they do offer a degree of secu­ri­ty in bat­tle­grounds like Ari­zona, Michi­gan, Penn­syl­va­nia, and Wis­con­sin.
Adam Geller, a Repub­li­can poll­ster and CEO of Nation­al Research Inc., told the Wash­ing­ton Exam­in­er that “hip­pie grand­mas” aging into the 65 and over demo­graph­ic account …