Did the majority of Trump general election voters vote for Reagan in 1980 and 1984?

[The Mikado]

I would not bet on over 50% of Trump's supporters having done that, because he did well enough with 40-50-somethings who'd be too young to vote in 1984 (to have voted in 1984, you'd need to be a minimum of 50, and to vote in 1980, you'd have needed to be a minimum of 54) and it's not like a bunch of teens/early-20s were Reagan's strongest demo, either. In 2016, you wouldn't find all that many Reagan voters left who were under 60, and that's not going to be a majority of anyone's support.

[The Mikado]

I bet there are definitely a lot of voters who backed Jimmy Carter and Walter Mondale in 1980 and 1984 but voted for Donald Trump in 2016 in West Virginia, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Iowa, Tennessee, and parts of Ohio and Wisconsin. Conversely, there also exists an even higher number of Ronald Reagan 1980/1984 voters and Hillary Clinton 2016 voters in California, Texas, Arizona, Georgia, Virginia, New Jersey, parts of New England, and many other states. Honestly, I would probably guess that most Ronald Reagan 1980/1984 voters went for Hillary Clinton in 2016, whereas most Jimmy Carter 1980/Walter Mondale 1984 voters went for Donald Trump.

That feels wrong, especially regarding 1984.

Yeah, I HIGHLY doubt his claim, lol.

Yeah, I kind of wish my mother were online enough to read this. She (voted for every Dem nominee since McGovern) would laugh her ass off about it.