U.S. Senate candidate Eric Hovde suggests most seniors shouldn't vote

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Eric Hovde questioned whether most nursing home residents should be able to vote because they only have "five, six months life expectancy." www.cbs58.com/...

[@curtisblake261]

The people I've known who spent their last years in a nursing home, moved there because it was their best move financially. Nothing to do with mental fitness. Oh the irony of Hovde questioning other people's mental fitness. Hovde might have been thinking hospice when he said nursing home, but even hospice residents can hang in there for many years and remain mentally fit.

[@jerjameswoj]

Who goes to hospice care for years? That makes no sense.

[@Wildcat82164]

@@jerjameswoj that's because you go to hospice care doesn't mean you're dying. Sometimes hospitals are too full so they send someone to hospice care. Hell my 80 year old neighbor went to hospice care right now she's back home doing pretty good.

[@denisehall4818]

Jimmy Carter's been in hospice a good while. Maybe Hovde wants to take away his right to vote?

[@grod805]

This man is pure evil.

[@MaryIden-fd1eb]

Amazing… who made you god?? I have a 53 year old step son in a nursing home with M.S., wow and guess what!!??? You (Eric) will be there one day!! They have lived for the most part longer or as long as you have been alive!! Good luck running for ANY office!! I hope you are proud and you go down in any upcoming primaries

[@miltonchapman1514]

Hovde? Git outta here.

[@kalicat9492]

Good to know because I will never vote for this California "cowboy". 🤠

[@grod805]

We don't claim him haha

[@jubjub444]

You already lost

[@archimedesbird3439]

Those that won't live to see the full consequences of their vote should not be allowed to vote

[@denisehall4818]

That's agist..........I'm 78 and no matter how old you are you could die before me......... Watch out for banana peels!

[@emjayay]

If a forty year old has an aneurism and dies within ten years of voting their vote should be cancelled then?

[@SamuelKrieg]

I love how the campaign said that he didn't suggest that seniors shouldn't vote but the new runs with "Eric Hovde suggests most seniors shouldn't vote." Bias Much CBS 58?

[@DayOldNewsNight]

logic isn't your strong suit.

[@dvferyance]

I think he has a point. 100 percent of people in a nursing home voted? That's out of the ordinary there is no telling who is actually casting their vote.

[@UMVELINQANGI]

🙄

[@miltonchapman1514]

Rules from fools.

[@miltonchapman1514]

Only a Republican could think this way. Thanks for the5,6 month warning tho.

[@lauracollins3451]

He hit the nail on the head. Out of his mouth nursing homes EXPECT people coming to only live 5 to 6 months which is why they are all bankrupt. He is also right that they help incompetent people vote that don't even know what's going on. My grandmother living in nursing home care for the last 15 years of life and she didn't even know how old she was.

[@rufuslynx0001]

Trump clone wannabe

[@paulblichmann2791]

What if they want things to go a certain way after their death? Is that invalid? From a purely pragmatic point, yes.