President Biden’s campaign strategy to secure the senior voting block in key states ahead of the 2024 election with bingo and pickleball arrived in Tucson Thursday.
About 30 people gathered in Tucson’s Democratic campaign field office on North Campbell Avenue and East Glenn Street for an afternoon game of bingo. The event was part of the campaign’s strategy to secure the senior voting block in key states ahead of the 2024 election.
First lady Jill Biden is scheduled to appear at an event on Saturday in Phoenix, as part of her husband’s efforts to reach senior voters in four swing states, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Nevada and Arizona. The campaign outreach will consist of social events like bingo nights and pickleball games, as well as rallies and phone banks.
Arizona in particular is a critical swing state in the upcoming election, with Biden having won the state in 2020 by about 10,000 votes.
In Arizona, voters 50 and older make up 50% of the electorate, with about 85% of those seniors voting according to former congressman and co-lead of the Arizona Democracy Resilience Network Ron Barber. That makes them a valuable voting block in the 2024 presidential election, he said.
Barber said that the predominant issues motivating seniors this election season were personal freedoms and rights, healthcare access as well as social security and Medicare benefits. Barber went on to highlight President Biden’s work to reduce prescription drug prices and efforts to preserve social security and medicare benefits for seniors.
