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Senior Citizens Will Be the ‘Deciding Factor’ in 2020 Election

Senior Citizens Will Be the ‘Deciding Factor’ in 2020 Election
An elderly couple reads a ballot prior to voting in Durham, N.C., on Nov. 8, 2016. Sara D. Davis/Getty Images
Salena Zito
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WESTMORELAND COUNTY, Pa.—The ad shows a drive-by of a rural, post-industrial unnamed town in this western Pennsylvania county. The woman in the ad says her name is Janie. She is a fisher who caught two legal Northern pike the day her daughter was born, voted for Donald Trump in 2016, and now believes the choice was wrong because of his attempt to try to cut Medicaid.

Salena Zito
Salena Zito
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Salena Zito has held a long, successful career as a national political reporter. Since 1992, she has interviewed every U.S. president and vice president, as well as top leaders in Washington, including secretaries of state, speakers of the House and U.S. Central Command generals. Her passion, though, is interviewing thousands of people across the country. She reaches the Everyman and Everywoman through the lost art of shoe-leather journalism, having traveled along the back roads of 49 states.
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