The trade war and tariffs are having on farmers across the u. S. You can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. Washington journal is next. Host good morning. It is saturday, august 17. We read that nearly one quarter of the electorate this time around will be 65 or older and seniors vote at a much higher percentage than others. We ask seniors only to call in this morning. What are your top issues for campaign 2020 . If you live in the eastern or central time zones, call 202 7488000. West, 202 out 7488001. You can send a tweet c spanwj. Commentalso post a on facebook. Key to the 2020 democratic president ial nomination. As they talk about iowa, in 2020, 23 of the electorate will be 65 and older. That is the highest share since 1970. In iowa specifically, the numbers are more dramatic those 50 and older accounted for 58 of democratic caucusgoers in 2016. 28 were 65 and older. Clear thateeds to be 60 of caucusgoers are going to be over the age of 50 said brad anderson, who is a former democratic nominee for secretary of state. If you are not Pay Attention to paying attention to the 50 plus voters, you are not going to win the iowa caucuses. Turnoutak down the 2016 by age. 60 and older voted at a 71 rate. 45 to 59 66 . You can see the numbers going down with the various age groups. 18 to 29 43 of those folks voted. As far as democratic primary toprs, joe biden is on according to a Washington Post poll covering june and july. He has 47 percent of their vote. Kamala harris 13 . Elizabeth warren 10 . Bernie sanders 3 . We wanted to show you former Vice President joe biden at an aarp forum in iowa last month on how he would help caregivers. [video clip] be ank there should minimum 5,000 tax credit for any home caregiver who is a family or just volunteering to do it. We found the hardest thing to do even though iowa is in relatively good shape was you have very little cooperation from hospitals. When you got released, you did not have someone saying here is the deal. This, ando look for here is the chart i want to give you. We should do the following. You should take the Blood Pressure every so often. They dont do it. They should. You should be given everything that needs to be done. Obviously, you are not going to perform an operation. In the world thes of my state and around country, paid caregivers are not getting paid much at all. They are not getting trained well. They should be well rewarded and compensated for what they do. They are desperately needed in poor and rural areas. We should be compensating them and training them so that they get paid more than they do now. It is a tough line of work to be in. You have all been there probably. Nobody more important to you. Scared,they get really holding their hands. Good, important people. Host they should be compensated. Host joe biden they should be compensated. Aarp for biden at that him. 2016, voters 65 and older, 52 went for President Trump. Hillary clinton got 45 . Moving forward to this new cycle, voters 65 and older, 48 would vote for a generic democrat. No name yet. 41 would vote for President Trump. From connecticut. Caller good morning. Thank you for taking my call. Heartlly just touched my because i took care of my parents, and caregivers are so important. Are, i amn issues going to support joe biden. I have never missed a primary. It boggles my mind that the youth dont vote. They could have so much power. They dont vote in primaries. My issues are always health care. Having taken care of aging parents and raising a family, and Campaign Finance reform. We have got to get the dark money out of politics. Youthney is blocking our out of being candidates themselves. I am also very concerned about our stature in the world. It is not just in the ego america is the greatest. We help so many counies. We influence social change. We have a moral obligation because we have so much to maintain our Foreign Policy and make the world proud. Host thank you for laying out those issues. You say you support joe biden. What do you see in him . Who livedsee a man some of the same Life Experiences i have lived. I see a man i believe. I see a man i trust. I see a man who will make this country proud again. I see a man who will be donald trump. Beat donald trump. Host charlie, what are your top issues this season . , which ihe major issue think is behind almost every problem we are facing, is the fact that the country has become so corrupt. Toward favoring the people in power and the people who have a lot of money is so severe that it is very hard to get anything done that helps the country. It just helps the people in power. I can give you many examples of it. It has become blatant with the ascension of donald trump. It has been around for a long time. Opinion, the best candidate to take on this corruption and really revive america is Elizabeth Warren. She has a clear idea of what to do about it. Who willproven fighter actually be able to accomplish most of these things. Basically by rallying people, by having a popular uprising. It is very exciting. I am 77. I have never seen a candidate like this who has this kind of potential. In my mind doubt that she will defeat donald trump. More important than simply defeating donald trump is the idea of actually doing something that is going to revive the entire country and make us productive again and with all the problems that have come up in the modern world. Host we will hear from Elizabeth Warren at that aarp forum in a moment. Were asking seniors only to call in this morning. Give us the name of someone you like. What you are hoping to hear from them. What issues are most important to you. Central 202 7488000. Mountain and pacific 202 7488001. Wage for allimum workers to 15 an hour, and it will help the senior parttime job market. Writes, myames Biggest Issue will be government transparency. Every citizen should be able to track everything up any from when it was taxed to the service it provides. Every citizen should be able to monitor their officials to make sure they are voting in line with what they want. Caller good morning. Issuengle most important is the environment. If we do not stop Global Warming and Climate Change, nothing else is going to matter. Folks are saying we have to do as much as we can as fast as we can within the next 10 to 12 years, or we are going to cross a Tipping Point we might not be able to survive. Host is there a specific candidate that speaks to you about Climate Change . Caller Bernie Sanders is who i am supporting, but i like the message of Marianne Williamson because she talks about love all the time, and love is excuse me. Anniversary ofth the last day of woodstock. Played thex starspangled banner on his guitar. All of a sudden he turns and looks directly into the camera, looking up from what he is doing, and he just looks at the camera. That kind of caught my attention. I was watching that, and i went through the words of the starspangled banner, and the two words that he looks into the camera is gallantly streaming. Caused him to do that to emphasize the words gallantly streaming. God is love. God wants us to be gallantly streaming love on the internet and in our lives. We can change this world if we will let love into our hearts and souls. And we will start trying to really love one another. Jerry on facebook agrees with arnold on one of the points they make, Climate Change is a top issue. Also keeping Social Security solvent. No democratic president ial won the senior vote since al gore in 2000. Every republican nominee has won a larger share of seniors. Vox, olderon voters are moving to the left. Like any demographic group, voters age 65 and older are no monolith. There are certain characteristics that define older americans. They are conservative and they care about Social Security and drug prices, and they vote. Advocates for seniors seek a more fluid electorate. They are interested in what they will leave for their grandchildren from Climate Change to education access. They are shifting ideologically to the left according to this piece. Senator Elizabeth Warren was at the aarp forum in iowa last month explaining how she would lower Prescription Drug prices. [video clip] about 90 of all prescriptions will be eligible as their drugs. Insulin, high Blood Pressure medicine, cholesterol medication, allergy medicines. All of this would be generic. Insulin is been around for nearly 100 years. The Drug Companies have found 100 different ways to keep those markets from working. Market hasgenerics either zero or one manufacturer. Having toy up to manufacturers. If we have a market that is not working, like the market for insulin, the federal government should come in and do a contract and say we will contract with a company to produce generic insulin. Andre going to turn around make it available to the American People at cost plus. We do that a few times, and the cost of Prescription Drugs goes down, and Drug Companies suddenly see that their plan doesnt work anymore. That is one way we can bring down costs. Clips from the aarp forum last month in des moines. You can watch those on the Des Moines Register youtube page. We will look at some of the other candidates and look at President Trump this hour. Aidabeth warren has offered to native americans. She laid out policy proposals intending to help native americans, bolstering funding for programs that serve native people. She is drawing attention to native american issues after months of largely refraining from doing so in the wake of a controversy over her ancestry. Arthur in tennessee. Good morning. Elizabeth warren is the person i would like to see as president. Seems like she is for everybody, not just a few. Herident trump calling pocahontas again is childish. She is very mature. I think she would make a good president. Host what issues do you have in mind . Caller she is for the environment. She is a senior citizen. I am a senior citizen. I think she would make a good president. Go to terry in connecticut. Caller good morning. , i amsues that bother me a very conservative person. In the values of our constitution, the bible. Everything that the Founding Fathers based the constitution on. I think we are going so far left that i could see us becoming a socialist country, which i read about in college, and it is not a good system. On illegal immigration, that is bad for our country because it is overwhelming our country with too much. We need quotas. The School Systems are going to be overcrowded. The Emergency Rooms are going to be overcrowded. I dont think illegals deserve anything. I believe in Donald Trumps idea, to port. Isfar as Climate Change, it overused. My brother was a scientist from m. I. T. Very brilliant man. He said Climate Change is overblown. He said it is cyclical, and people who talk about it constantly dont know what they are talking about. They make it sound like the world is going to end. I dont think so. The epa is constantly monitoring our environment. That is an issue that is completely ridiculous. Say,ast thing i wanted to open borders, very bad. Very unconstitutional in my book because what defines a country is language, culture, and borders. That keeps our country distinct and exceptional from other countries. That is all i wanted to say. I love donald trump. Host from connecticut to indiana. Robert, what are your top issues this Campaign Season . I believe what the lady said. If you talk about god, they want to cut you off. Let me talk for a few minutes. , theyis talk about money are going to give this, theyre going to give that. It is not money. We need god in this country. You will find out what we are living in today. The book of micah says they will ride in the streets, the young people will rise up against their parents, and that is what is happening today. The schools are overcrowded. I believe that because when i school, there were 19 i graduated with. Now there are thousands. It is crazy. We do not need anything about Global Warming because god said the world will be destroyed by fire. Host we will go to linda. Disagree would like to with the woman from connecticut. No one has ever said the world would end in 12 days due to Global Warming. Would pass the point of the problem being reversible. In 12 years, we will no longer be able to solve the problem. I would like to agree with the man from massachusetts that it seems like our country is more corrupt than it has ever been in my lifetime. The rich and powerful are just. Ecoming more and rich that is all our politics seems to be these days. Say that i have been getting emails asking me to contact my senators to ask for them to fight against the gutting of the endangered species act that the department of the interior did a few days ago. I dont know if the senate will vote on it. It could not hurt to call because it is really are logically and environmentally to do to the endangered species act with the department of interior has just done. If you are watching in our next hour, we will talk about the endangered species act. Jonathan wood of the Pacific Legal foundation and Jason Rylander of defenders of wildlife. We will take more of your calls for that hour. We will have a special 50th anniversary look back on this program tomorrow on woodstock. That is a joint production with American History television on cspan3. A little more from that vox piece on what older adults are looking for. Have reliedublicans on older american support since 2000. 53 of adults 65 and older voted for President Trump, who campaigned on protecting medicare and Social Security and lowering drug prices. Those dynamics could be changing. Yearlicans spent the first of control under President Trump attempting to repeal and replace the Affordable Care act. They could have made health care more costly for older and sicker americans. Donald trumps 2020 Budget Proposal includes party 5 billion in cuts to Social Security over the next 10 years. The oldest president ial candidate since we look at the democrats and republicans, President Trump right now. Here are the current ages. Bernie sanders 77. Joe biden 76. Donald trump 73. Elizabeth warren 70. This would be the oldest campaign 2020 candidates. Those are there current ages. Here is Bernie Sanders at that aarp forum talking about his medicare plan and providing more coverage for seniors. [video clip] im a strong defender of medicare. Medicare is a good and Popular Program for seniors. Lets be honest. Medicare does not provide all of the benefits that seniors need. Seniors need dental care. Medicare is not provide it. Seniors need hearing aids. Medicare does not provide. Seniors need eyeglasses. Medicare does not provide it. Under medicare for all, we expand those benefits to seniors. They are health care benefits, and they deserve it. Furthermore, we expand Home Health Care. Millions of seniors would prefer to stay at home rather than go into a nursing home. They cannot afford to do that. They have to spend everything they have saved in their life. We fund Home Health Care so people have the choice about staying at home. What are your top issues for camping 2020 . Stephen writes, im concerned about guns in our culture, especially schools and the environment and Climate Change. Vote for any democrat so we can bring back civility and objectivity to government. We have jean on the line. Caller hello and thank you. I very much enjoy your show every morning almost. Things that i would comment on. I will try to be brief. I cant remember when Lyndon Johnson was in office, and we started the great society. We are he had Social Security. Acial security was sort of ponzi scheme, but it was working. It is a good thing because a lot of older people had no way of taking care of themselves when they got older. That social program was a good one kept under control. Medicare also worked pretty well, then you had this ability added to it where younger people could collect the Social Security that the working people had paid into. I think that one solution would be to separate Social Security and disability by age. Disability should be a separate program because it is a separate problem. I think the government having a hand in the Insurance Business is what has made the problem that we have got. Came into operation, we went on it for a while, and we came to that doughnut hole, and by septemb