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US ELECTION 2020

Florida’s tide of grey voters is turning against Trump

The president won the support of older people in the key battleground state by a wide margin in 2016. With three weeks left before he seeks re-election, the picture this time is less clear. Jacqui Goddard reports

Ed McGinty, 72, who spends his days campaigning against the president, is clear: “If you’re still voting for Trump in 2020 you’re one of four things: a racist, a bigot, a greedy son of a bitch — or just stupid”
Ed McGinty, 72, who spends his days campaigning against the president, is clear: “If you’re still voting for Trump in 2020 you’re one of four things: a racist, a bigot, a greedy son of a bitch — or just stupid”
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The Times

Sitting in a lawn chair next to his golf cart covered with campaign posters, Ed McGinty does not hold back from telling fellow residents of the world’s largest retirement community what he thinks of President Trump.

In The Villages, a 32 square-mile Florida enclave sold to its 132,000 largely white, largely conservative population as the place where “all your dreams come true”, he has spent every day of the past three years as protesting against his nightmare president.

“Biden will kick Trump’s fat ass” and “Trump is Putin’s Bitch” are among the signs the 72-year-old props against his cart, but there is one sign that changes every day: “May Donald Trump burn in hell . . .” it reads, followed by the US coronavirus death