Despite the age group’s semi-frequent association with Republican political causes, respondents 65 years old and up from a pool of registered voters supported Joe Biden more than Donald Trump in newly released polling from Quinnipiac University.
In a one-on-one match-up, 53 percent of respondents in that age range expressed support for Biden, while 45 percent backed Trump in a measurement of support in their expected electoral rematch later this year. Exit polling by Edison Research from the 2020 presidential election found a reversed outcome, with 52 percent of those 65 years of age and up supporting Trump, while 47 percent backed Biden.
The Quinnipiac polling packed a variety of positive results for Biden and Dems, with the incumbent also leading by a huge margin among women, 60 percent of whom supported him. The outcome mirrors previous trends in political and electoral data partly spurred by the conservatively leaning U.S. Supreme Court infamously undoing Roe v. Wade — which established national legal protections for abortion — in 2022.
The nine-member court had three Trump nominees on the bench when it issued that decision, and all three were in favor of undoing that long established legal precedent. Trump has, in the time since, expressed pride in those developments. The court’s decision left regulating abortion to legislators across states and the federal government, though the opportunities have mostly been taken so far specifically by state officials.
Republicans have pursued an aggressive plan of restricting abortion, sometimes excluding even exceptions for rape and incest, while Democrats and voters in states leaning that political direction have sought to shore up protections for reproductive care. A series of states, for instance, have approved or otherwise advanced amendments to their state Constitutions that outline protections for abortion, and authorities across these states have also solidified their opposition to the prospect of cooperating with out-of-state investigations involving someone heading to their jurisdiction for care.
