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Why Older Voters Could Swing the Election

WSJ What’s News

The Wall Street Journal

Daily News, News

4.14.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

A.M. Edition for June 17. Republicans have won the senior vote in every presidential election since 2000. Polls show this year could be different, potentially giving President Biden an unlikely boost in his tough rematch against Donald Trump, the WSJ’s Dante Chinni says. Plus, China’s troubled property sector shows few signs of improvement despite Beijing’s moves to prop it up. And, Wells Fargo’s plan to let customers pay rent on their credit cards ends up costing the bank dearly. Luke Vargas hosts. Sign up for the WSJ's free What's News newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Beijing's property sector interventions have yet to spark a much needed turnaround.

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Plus, Wells Fargo's plan to let customers pay rent on their credit cards

0:29.4

backfires for the bank and how a subtle Biden tilt among seniors could be enough to tip the

0:36.2

election. 65 plus voters vote at a higher rate than other parts of the

0:40.9

electorate so a small shift can mean even more

0:43.8

because if you're getting higher turnout

0:45.6

in that block of voters, it can have an exaggerated impact.

0:48.4

It's Monday, June 17th.

0:50.6

I'm Luke Vargas for the Wall Street Journal and here is the AM edition of What's News?

0:55.8

The top headlines and business stories moving your world today. An attempted rescue of China's broken housing market is showing few signs of

1:07.7

triggering a turn around according to new economic data released today.

1:11.3

Journal Asia Finance reporter Rebecca Rebecca Fung, told me that comes despite Beijing recently cutting interest rates on mortgage loans, reducing minimum down payments, and empowering local governments to buy up

1:24.8

unsold homes.

1:25.8

Ultimately these policies are basically supposed to mop up excessive demand and persuade

1:32.0

homebuyers to basically reenter the market.

1:34.0

But the latest economic figures showed us these measures haven't quite worked yet.

1:39.0

In terms of home prices, we're seeing that in major cities new home prices fell 4.3% compared with the year earlier in May, and that's actually

1:47.6

widening from 3.5% decline in April.

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