ICYMI: Eric Hovde Thinks Seniors in Nursing Homes Shouldn’t Be Allowed to Vote

MADISON, Wis. — In case you missed it, California bank owner Eric Hovde announced that he believes senior citizens shouldn’t be allowed to vote if they are living in a nursing home because they “only have five, six months life expectancy.” “Almost nobody in a nursing home is at a point to vote,” he continued. He announced this policy proposal while spouting off disproven conspiracies about the 2020 election.

What else is on Hovde’s list of priorities for our seniors:

• He would “absolutely” support cutting Social Security benefits.

• He supports raising the retirement age to as high as 72 years.

• He praised a GOP budget proposal to cut $205 billion from Medicare, and said he wanted to go even further and bigger with his cuts.

Hovde’s proposal to take away the freedom to vote from seniors in nursing homes is yet another disconnected and disrespectful attack on Wisconsinites from the megamillionaire bank owner. 

See below for coverage of Eric Hovde’s plan to disenfranchise Wisconsin seniors:

• Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: US Senate candidate Eric Hovde questions whether nursing home residents should vote

• CBS 58: U.S. Senate candidate Eric Hovde suggests most seniors shouldn’t vote

• WPR: Senate candidate Eric Hovde says most nursing home residents not ‘at a point to vote’

• Washington Post: GOP Senate candidate in Wisconsin questions why nursing home residents vote

• Newsweek: Republican Suggests Thousands of Seniors Shouldn’t Be Voting

• Rolling Stone: Trump-Endorsed Senate Candidate Questions if Nursing Home Residents Are Alive Enough to Vote

• Heartland Signal: Wisconsin Senate candidate Eric Hovde says people in nursing homes shouldn’t vote

• Daily Beast: Trump’s Pick for Wisconsin Senator Suggests Nursing Home Residents Shouldn’t Vote

• Washington Examiner: GOP Senate hopeful Eric Hovde questions fitness of nursing home patients to vote

• Independent: Trump-endorsed senate candidate claims nursing home residents shouldn’t be able to vote

• Raw Story: GOP Senate hopeful suggests nursing home residents are too close to death to vote

• Daily Mail: Republican Senate candidate suggests nursing home residents should not be voting because they have only have a ‘five, six-month life expectancy’

• Mediaite: Trump-Backed Senate Candidate Suggests People In Nursing Homes Too Close to Death to Vote

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