Idrees Kahloon
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 9 Jul
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So there's really no incentive to move unless you
are voluntarily going to do that.
And a lot of people, clearly on both parties, find it very, very hard to move on.
it's a really good question um people like incumbents as much as they say that they don't it's a bit like you know in polling when you ask people um what do you think about education oh it's terrible what do you think about your kids school it's not that bad what do you think about health care in america it's pretty terrible what do you think about your health insurance it's not that bad i think that there's something similar that happens with politicians the abstract people think okay well we want to vote the bums out we don't like them
But you think about your local politician, whether it's Susan Collins, Chuck Grassley, politicians in small states that have established kind of long ties to the community.
And there it goes, well, you know, he's not so bad.
I'll vote for him.
I think something like that is going on here as well.
They definitely play an outsized role in primary elections, and they play a big role in the campaign donation system.
So the median campaign donor is 68, I believe.
The median primary voter is quite old as well in their 60s.
And in a lot of ways, politics is geared around service to older voters.
That's why
Social Security and Medicare are treated as untouchable entitlements.
And I think one of the genius moves that Donald Trump has made, and he made it back in 2016, 2015, was to say that Republicans are no longer going to be the party about reforming those programs.
And that was a play for older voters.
It was successful at the time.
And I think that particularly in the early stages of campaigning, before the general election, the early money game, the primary game, really taking a stance against the AARP, taking a stance against
that's seen as disfavorable to older voters definitely pays a political penalty.
It's a complicated question because America is simultaneously a place that has problems, economic problems, a lot of economic discontent.
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