美国总统乔·拜登(Joe Biden)的竞选团队周二宣布，他们正在关键战场州积极争取老年选民，并将努力通过宾果和皮克球等活动动员他们。
作为在选举前几个月吸引老年选民的全国计划的一部分，竞选团队将举行活动，让他们相信拜登将争取老年人依赖的社会保障和医疗保险等项目。
拜登的竞选经理朱莉·查韦斯·罗德里格斯在一份声明中说:“老年人应该有一个把他们放在第一位的总统——那就是拜登总统。“他采取了历史性的行动来降低成本——包括将老年人的胰岛素费用限制在每月35美元，保护养老金，并阻止共和党人削减社会保障的极端努力。”
拜登和前总统唐纳德·特朗普都在努力吸引关键战场州的选民，因为他们准备在预计将发生的情况下进行对决11月的一场激烈比赛.
竞选团队宣布，预计在大选中竞争激烈的几个州将于本周举行十多场由老年选民推动的活动。虽然拜登竞选团队没有指明所有被针对的州，但亚利桑那州、内华达州、宾夕法尼亚州、威斯康星州、佐治亚州、密歇根州和北卡罗来纳州等关键战场州可能会被优先考虑。
竞选团队表示，本周的活动包括“弗吉尼亚州的一场篮球锦标赛，佐治亚州的一次煎饼早餐会，亚利桑那州的宾果游戏，以及新罕布什尔州第二先生的电话银行”。
这些活动的地点表明，拜登感到有必要捍卫一个比他预期的更广泛的地图:根据538个州的民调显示，他在2020年以较大优势赢得了弗吉尼亚州和新罕布什尔州。
然而，一些民调也显示，与对手相比，拜登在老年人中更受欢迎。A上个月公布的昆尼皮亚克民意调查显示拜登在65岁以上选民中领先于特朗普(分别为55%和43%)。与此同时，民调发现，两位候选人在18岁至34岁的选民中基本持平。
竞选团队对老年选民的积极支持正值总统面临某些选民的落后支持之际，这些选民曾帮助他入主白宫。最近的民调显示，拜登在最年轻选民中大致追平甚至落后于特朗普。一;一个四月CNN民意调查发现拜登在18-34岁的选民中落后特朗普11个百分点。
数据显示，2020年，拜登在18-29岁的选民中赢得了60%的选票退出民意调查.
Bingo and pickleball among ways Biden will try to win votes of older people
President Joe Biden's campaign is aggressively pursuing older voters in key battleground states and will try to mobilize them with activities such as bingo and pickleball, the campaign announced on Tuesday.
As part of a national program to engage older voters in the months before the election, the campaign will hold events to convince them that Biden will fight for programs like Social Security and Medicare that older people rely on.
"Seniors deserve a president who puts them first -- that's President Biden," Biden's campaign manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez said in a statement. "He's taken historic action to lower costs -- including capping the cost of insulin at $35 a month for seniors, protecting pensions, and standing in the way of extreme MAGA Republican efforts to cut Social Security."
Both Biden and former President Donald Trump are working to attract voters in key battleground states as they prepare to face off in what's expected to bea tight race in November.
More than a dozen older voter-driven events are scheduled for this week across several states expected to be competitive in the general election, the campaign announced. While the Biden campaign didn't specify all of the states being targeted, it's likely that the key battleground states of Arizona, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Georgia, Michigan and North Carolina will be prioritized.
The events this week include "a pickleball tournament in Virginia, a pancake breakfast in Georgia, bingo in Arizona, and a phone bank with the Second Gentleman in New Hampshire," the campaign said.
The locations of these events indicate that Biden feels the need to defend a broader map than he might have expected entering the cycle: Virginia and New Hampshire are states he won by comfortable margins in 2020, but could be more competitive this time around, according to polling in the states gathered by 538.
Some polls, however, also indicate that Biden is in a more favorable spot with older people compared to his opponent. AQuinnipiac poll released last monthshowed Biden ahead of Trump (55% to 43%, respectively) with voters who are 65 or older. Meanwhile, the two candidates are roughly tied among voters aged 18-34, the poll found.
The campaign’s aggressive support toward older voters comes as the president faces lagging support among certain constituencies that helped propel him to the White House. Recent polls have shown Biden roughly tied or even trailing Trump with the youngest voters. AnApril CNN pollfound Biden trails Trump by 11 points with voters aged 18-34.
In 2020, Biden earned 60% of votes among voters aged 18-29, accordingto exit polls.
