Golden oldies abandon Trump

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Hoocoodanode that killing your base would…well…kill your base? Via the FT:

The coronavirus pandemic is eroding Donald Trump’s popularity among a group that was crucial to his 2016 victory — older white Americans — a worrying sign for the president’s re-election hopes.

According to a New York Times-Siena College poll released last week, two-fifths of white voters aged 65 and over say they do not approve of the way Mr Trump has been handling coronavirus and the George Floyd protests.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.