Remember when Trump revealed he would blame older voters if he loses the election?

The 2024 Election between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris has been one of the closest presidential races in American history, it is still unclear if either candidate has a major advantage over the other. But what we do know is who Trump might blame if he loses on November 5th.

While speaking to a crowd of supporters at a camping rally in Tucson in September, the former president rattled off a few thoughts on the shifting demographics of his recent campaign rallies and wondered out loud if the change would cost him on election day. 

“We have a lot of young people here,” Trump told his crowd of supporters in Arizona on September 12th. “My audiences, they’ve gotten younger and younger, do you notice that?” the former president added. 

Trump’s audience likely didn’t know where he was going with his remark but the former president quickly dove into his reason for bringing the age gap up at his rally. He was very worried the change was going to hurt him in November. 

“Don’t worry, I still like the old people the best, I don’t care!” he exclaimed to a roaring crowd according to The Daily Beast’s reporting. “I don’t care, let that cost — all these young people,” Trump said, referring to the upcoming election. 

“Let that cost me the election. I like the—I still like the old people the best. Got to stay with the people that got you there, right?" Trump added, and his observation was right. Losing older voters could cost him the election. 

Pew Research found that it was older voters who sent Trump to the White House back in 2016 when he faced off against Hillary Clinton. Trump did well among voters 50- to 64-year-old voters at that time and even better with those aged 65 or older. 

Trump won voters aged 50 to 64 and against Clinton 51% to 45% and those over the age of 65 at a whopping 53% to 44%. Older voters were also largely loyal to Trump when he faced off against Biden in 2020. 

“Older age groups divided fairly evenly between Biden and Trump, a result not too different from 2016,” Pew Research noted in a breakdown of the data from the 2020 election. 

Trump won voters aged 50 to 64 and against Biden 53% to 47% and those over the age of 65 by a slimmer margin than in 2016 against Clinton at 52% to 48%. So it could be possible that a demographic shift will help cost him the election in November! 

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