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Republicans want someone younger than Donald Trump as president: new poll

In a YouGov poll conducted between July 25-29, 59 percent of Republicans surveyed said they would prefer a president under the age of 75. Trump celebrated his 78th birthday in June. Forty percent said they had no preference, and just two percent said they would prefer a president over the age of 75.

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arin ,

Why younger? Why not someone smarter and, empathetic?

FlyingSquid OP ,
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Because Trump loves the poorly educated, has the best brain, and Ayn Rand said altruism is evil.

jordanlund ,
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Isn’t this consistent with when it was Trump/Biden? I seem to remember both sides saying they wanted a younger candidate.

Or it could be they think Trump is younger than he actually is…

Shawdow194 ,
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This is it

I bet half the respondents didn't realize Trump is over 75yrs

scytale ,

I imagine it’s like those people Jordan Klepper interviews at Trump rallies that go like this:

Jordan: Do you think a candidate who’s almost 80 is too old?

Person: Yeah.

J: …and Trump is 78.

Person: Yeah.

J: So he’s too old and someone younger would be better.

Person: For sure.

J: So who do you want for president?

Person: I’m voting Trump.

Samvega ,

Jordan: Do you think that a sentient pile of goo trained in a laboratory to hate all human life and subject it to fiery nuclear death is a good candidate?

Person: No.

J: Trump is actually a robot inhabited by that goo. Here is clear, simple, factual and verifiable evidence. Here are multiple videos and sources confirming that Trump wants to kill us all.

Person: Yeah.

J: So, Trump is a bad candidate who will murder your children.

Person: Yep.

J: Who are you voting for?

Person: Trump, he’ll go after the alphabet mafia first. And, to be honest, he’s just saying he’ll kill everyone to be edgy and noticeable.

en.wikipedia.org/…/Association_of_German_National…

A reason why some German Jews supported Hitler was that they thought that his anti-Semitism was only for “stirring up the masses”.

samus12345 ,
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I’m voting for Shrieking White-Hot Sphere of Pure Rage!

BeigeAgenda ,
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According to his nft’s he looks to be in the early 40s, with a body like a greek god.

nft

FlyingSquid OP ,
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The latter wouldn’t shock me, but I don’t remember anything but the majority of Republicans saying they wanted anyone but Trump. I admit I don’t have the world’s best memory, so feel free anyone to show me wrong here.

blattrules ,

They definitely have not looked up how old he is, so I’m going with the latter and they thought this was a dig at Biden.

samus12345 ,
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PugJesus ,

“So, Nicki Haley?”

[suddenly all the Trumpets cast their vote for an over-75 primary presidential candidate]

It’s just empty hand-wringing.

FlyingSquid OP ,
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It’s a good sign. They think Harris can win.

solrize ,

Vance of course.

card797 ,

I’ma never Trump guy… lol

That song is stuck in my head.

anoncity ,

Tulsi Gabbard would have my vote

Caboose12000 ,

As a band kid, I respectfully request that you do not use my musical instrument of choice to refur to racist conservatives who want to end democracy.

Thank you for your understanding

plz1 ,

Nope, should’ve thought about that before getting in bed with him. Now they have to carry him to term.

TimLovesTech ,
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These republicans want to get rid of candidates up to and after the 11th month!

/s

_stranger_ ,

The way you phrased that reminded me of that old X Files episode where that little dude crawls inside the fat dude.

plz1 ,

Well that’s an image one can’t un-imagine…

_stranger_ ,

Sounds like they need to vote for Kamala!

JoMiran ,
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…they would prefer a president under the age of 75.

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avidamoeba ,
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Thank you Captain Obvious!

ArbitraryValue ,

Well of course most people would want the candidate to be younger. I’m sure even the candidates wish they were younger. (I wouldn’t mind being younger myself.) That’s not the same thing as preferring to replace the current candidate with a different, young candidate.

FlyingSquid OP ,
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Isn’t preferring a younger president suggesting you want a younger candidate?

ArbitraryValue ,

Sorry, I rephrased my post a bit. What I meant is that there’s a difference between saying “it would be better if Trump were younger” and “Trump should be replaced by someone who is younger”.

RattlerSix ,

I guess they’re rounding up on a couple of those because 59+40+2=101.

Anyway… they had younger people running against him and he won. He’s their guy and they can all go to hell with him

FlyingSquid OP ,
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Exactly. They are only saying this now because Biden dropped out.

And yes, I am guessing it was a rounding error. There’s always a margin of error on these things after all.

mightyfoolish ,

Guess we are also making fun of them when they say something normal… Wow, they said something normal!

FlyingSquid OP ,
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It would have been normal if they had thought that during the primaries and backed any of the people younger than Trump in significant numbers.

But they only feel this way after Biden dropped out.

So yeah, we’re making fun of them.

mightyfoolish ,

I was making fun of them too, just in a tounge-in-cheek way.

FlyingSquid OP ,
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Ah, gotcha.

AbidanYre ,

A Ryker in the post feels like cheating.

FlyingSquid OP ,
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I’m the Riker expert around here. Don’t argue with my Riker posting.

AbidanYre ,

I can’t even spell the dude’s name right. Clearly no one should be listening to me.

Reverendender ,

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snekerpimp ,

So, now they want to change the ballot after they had their convention and picked their nominee? Isn’t this what republicans were screaming was illegal for the dems to do? Except that the dems hadn’t picked their nominee officially yet?

FlyingSquid OP ,
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IOKIYAR.

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