Bill McKibben on the efforts of the organization Third Act to mobilize voters over the age of sixty to turn out for Kamala Harris in the 2024 Presidential election.
Clearly Trump is counting on this demographic to come through for him, and with some reason. In both 2016 and 2020, the Roper Center reports, voters over sixty-five backed him fifty-two per cent to forty-five, his widest margin in any age cohort. But there are tantalizing hints it may not be so this time around—the latest Times/Siena poll shows Harris with a modest lead among elder voters. And an A.A.R.P.
There’s Lester Maddox, once the governor of Georgia, who used to chase Black customers away from his family store with an axe handle, and George Wallace, of Alabama, and Orval Faubus, of Arkansas, who tried to keep Black children out of Little Rock schools, and Senator James Eastland, of Mississippi, who said that segregation is “the law of nature, it is the law of God, that every race has both the right and the duty to perpetuate itself.
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