this is gonna be the best day of my
this is where the american dream goes to
retire if you come here
you drink the kool-aid you'll never want
to leave
paradise it's disneyland for seniors
the villages in central florida is home
to 130
000 retirees it's a network of small
communities
built around shared recreation
facilities there's a feeling of
second youth in the villages everyone
drives golf carts
although there are plenty of biden signs
on display
the trump signs are far more common
the president picked a different form of
transport for his visit to the villages
last week
i see you driving around in those
beautiful golf carts the most beautiful
carts i want to get one
i'm going to get a golf cart like that
but you have the best
and you're always fighting for me and
i'm always fighting for you and i
appreciate it that's why we're here
but there's some evidence from polling
that seniors aren't so keen on the
president
at this election some seniors have
definitely turned against trump
here in the villages trump won
overwhelmingly
and and he will win the villages again
this year
but he won't win by the same margins
that he did
in 2016. and so the way that i look at
this
is if i can peel away trump supporters
from 2016
who are now joe biden supporters and add
them to the statewide
total that will help move florida into
going for joe biden
next week those 29 electoral votes
will put joe biden into the wind column
the coronavirus seems to be one big
reason for older voters changing their
minds
polling suggests that many believe the
president has made poor leadership
and policy decisions on the virus oh i
know everybody's upset about that
i mean how many businesses have gone out
of business
and how many people have died you know
it's just
unbelievable and he didn't do anything
when he knew it on january
third he kept it all a secret
but of course not everyone feels the
president has performed badly
joe tweedy is 80 years old and drives
his hot rod cart
in his socks he's done everything he
could have done
i think he was the first one to
immediately stop the flights coming in
from china
and immediately all the democrats
including joe biden jumped on him called
him xenophobic and racist and everything
else and same thing when he shut it off
a week later from
europe had he not done it who knows how
many might have been a million died by
now you know
as you wander around the villages
something doesn't quite ring true
the buildings claim an impressive
heritage and there are
helpfully historical markers dotted
around the place
this was apparently the telegraph office
where someone by the name of charles
flying fingers borrowmen
was famous for the speed of his morse
code messaging
except it's all nonsense this place was
built out of nothing
in the 1980s and 90s the villages is
selling
seniors a view of the past of america
that's reassuring
that's comforting but it's entirely
fabricated
similarly the democratic party in this
election is telling older voters
that only they can bring the old america
back an america
of decency of unity but is that america
any more real than this one
this is the bocce breakfast club an hour
or so in the gentle morning sun
playing a cross between bowls and patong
they are mainly trump supporters here
and skeptical of joe biden's promise to
bring the country together
i'd like to see unity but i don't think
he's the guy to pull it off he hasn't
done anything in 50 years
i don't think he's still going to do
anything there's not much of a choice as
far as i'm concerned
you're either going to have socialism
and you know biden could barely wipe his
ass you know i mean
he's never going to make it there
they're going to put that other
camel in there for voice for president
probably he won't make it past three
weeks
it looks like they want to socialize
america and of course i'm not in favor
of that
and that's the way it seems to to a lot
of us down here
who worked hard for a living saves a few
pennies so we could come down and live
in florida
and a lot of people don't do that and we
don't look i look upon those people hey
why should we give to those people who
aren't really going out and working at
it
but there's a very different feel on the
shuffleboard court nearby
here the teams are mixed and talking
politics
discouraged it would sort of turn people
off one way or another
you know people like to talk about their
kids we don't talk about politics
at all we like to keep our friends i'll
be glad when it's over whatever is
decided i will support the president
but i will be glad it's over
this might well be the last generation
of americans who can afford to retire
in this kind of style many baby boomers
benefited from jobs for life with
generous company pensions
the stock market and house prices moved
in their favor
the generations coming behind are far
less secure
and with a winning margin in florida
last time of just one per cent
so is donald trump