Sep 27, 2026 · 32 min · 10 segments
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yeah thank you and i'm happy to be here thanks for having me uh first thing i'd say is that we're a a non-partisan non-profit And so what we do is we do policy-focused stuff.
We try to make it so that way policies, whether it's federal stuff or state stuff, it benefits older adults, anybody over the age of 50.
That way we're able to have a place where you can both grow up and grow old in.
And people that when they hit that age of 50, they are anxiously awaiting that card, that AARP card when it comes into the mail.
One of the things that's very interesting, Brendan, is I think that not to say that young people aren't voting because they are, but it's clear in this country that older people vote more than younger people.
And we also see that older folks are more motivated to vote than younger people by about 20 points.
When you ask them if they're motivated 10 out of 10, older folks are 77 percent saying they are 10 out of 10 motivated to vote.
Whereas people under the age of 35 are we have them at about 56 percent of them say they're 10 out of 10.
Why do you think that is, Brendan? I think that older people are more familiar with how their vote matters.
You know, in Arizona, we don't really get sort of like what you consider sort of a normal off-year, off-cycle election because in our quote-unquote off-year elections, we get to vote for our governor.
And people around the country, they may have their governor race happen in a presidential year or maybe even in an odd-numbered year, where every two years we have a big election, whether it's for president, senate, or for governor.
And so for us, it's always a big year, and I think older folks know that, and they know that their vote matters.
yeah thank you and i'm happy to be here thanks for having me uh first thing i'd say is that we're a a non-partisan non-profit And so what we do is we do policy-focused stuff.
We try to make it so that way policies, whether it's federal stuff or state stuff, it benefits older adults, anybody over the age of 50.
That way we're able to have a place where you can both grow up and grow old in.
And people that when they hit that age of 50, they are anxiously awaiting that card, that AARP card when it comes into the mail.
One of the things that's very interesting, Brendan, is I think that not to say that young people aren't voting because they are, but it's clear in this country that older people vote more than younger people.
And we also see that older folks are more motivated to vote than younger people by about 20 points.
When you ask them if they're motivated 10 out of 10, older folks are 77 percent saying they are 10 out of 10 motivated to vote.
Whereas people under the age of 35 are we have them at about 56 percent of them say they're 10 out of 10.
Why do you think that is, Brendan? I think that older people are more familiar with how their vote matters.
You know, in Arizona, we don't really get sort of like what you consider sort of a normal off-year, off-cycle election because in our quote-unquote off-year elections, we get to vote for our governor.
And people around the country, they may have their governor race happen in a presidential year or maybe even in an odd-numbered year, where every two years we have a big election, whether it's for president, senate, or for governor.
And so for us, it's always a big year, and I think older folks know that, and they know that their vote matters.
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