St. Petersburg, Florida (CNN)John Dudley, a retired banker, proudly cast his ballot for Donald Trump in 2016, excited at the prospect of sending an entrepreneur to the White House on a pledge to change Washington. It`s a vote he regrets, he said, and a mistake he hopes to correct in November. `He blew it,` Dudley said, not mincing words as he assessed Trump`s first term. `We were so excited in the beginning. A businessman to run our country like a business and it hasn`t happened.` The searing sentiment of Dudley, 77, illustrates one of the rising worries inside the Trump campaign: losing the senior vote, a reliably Republican constituency for two decades. Here in Florida, people 65 and older...
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