Did Eric Hovde say most senior citizens shouldn't vote?
A TV ad misstated what Republican U.S. Senate candidate Eric Hovde said about older voters.
Hovde is running in the November 2024 election against U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis.
In an April interview, Hovde described what he claimed were voting irregularities involving Wisconsin nursing home residents in the 2020 presidential election. A partisan investigation found no evidence of malicious intent behind a few cases of mentally incompetent people voting.
Hovde said: "If you’re in a nursing home, you only have five, six months’ life expectancy. Almost nobody in a nursing home is in a point to vote."
In fact, many people in nursing homes can and do vote, oftentimes with assistance.
But in a WinSenate ad posted May 25, the narrator claimed that Hovde said “most seniors shouldn’t vote.” That's not what he said.
WinSenate, a liberal super PAC, has spent $3.76 million attacking Hovde, according to Open Secrets.
