Trump revealed who he might blame if he loses the election

Donald Trump may not beat Vice President Kamala Harris in November and he already may have a group of people ready to blame if he does lose based on recent comments at a campaign rally in Tucson, Arizona. 

While speaking to a crowd of supporters in Tucson, the former president rattled off a few thoughts on the shifting demographics of his recent campaign rallies and wondered out loud if the change was going to 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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