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The National Committee to Preserve Social Security & Medicare (NCPSSM),
which defied a 38-year tradition of avoiding endorsements to
back Biden in 2020, Social Security Works PAC and the bipartisan
National United Committee to Protect Pensions all said they
would back Biden in 2024.
The endorsements, which had not been previously reported, follow
the January endorsement of Biden by the 4.4-million member
Alliance for Retired Americans.
The committee said Biden had worked to protect seniors' earned
benefits.
The campaign on Tuesday launched Seniors for Biden-Harris, a
grassroots program to energize voters 65 and up with more than a
dozen events from bingo nights to pickleball tournaments to
appearances by senior administration officials.
Older Americans could play a key role in the election, given
that they vote at higher levels than any other group and account
for nearly 10 million voters in key election battleground
states, including Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, North
Carolina, Georgia, Arizona and Nevada.
Seniors generally vote majority Republican, but their growing
support for Biden, 81, the oldest person to serve as president,
could be good news for the Democrat, whose approval rating fell
to its lowest level in almost two years in May.
Americans 65 and older numbered nearly 56 million in the 2020
census, or just under 17% of the U.S. population. Trump won
voters of that age by 7 percentage points in 2016, but Biden
narrowed the gap to 5 points in 2020, and now has a narrow lead,
according to an April NBC News poll.
(Reporting by Andrea Shalal. Editing by Gerry Doyle)
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