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Biden’s Black voter troubles are setting off alarm bells
The message out of battleground states and focus groups is that the president’s problems are real — and he is running out of time to fix them. (Hmm the pics Politico chose, looks kind of sabotagy. Must read)
By EUGENE DANIELS and LAUREN EGAN 05/30/20241/2
Prominent Black officials are warning the Biden campaign that thepresident’s efforts to keep Black voters firmly and enthusiasticallyin his electoral coalitionaren’t working— and that time is running out to get his message across.
The publicly voiced concern from these Black Democrats isn’t that the White House lacks policy achievements — it’s that Black voters aren’t hearing about them.Worse, they fearthat the Bidencampaign has not fully grasped the severityof the information gap at hand, particularly in key battleground states.
“I’m in a battleground state. I know what has and hasn’t been done. I felt a level of disconnection earlier on the message, on the messengers and on mobilization,” said Rep. Steven Horsford (D-Nev.), the chair of the Congressional Black Caucus. He said he has brought this issue directly to the campaign.
Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) said a balkanized news landscape —where voters are increasingly tuning in to more nontraditional sources of information— has contributed to the problem. “I think that the way that we communicate has changed in such a way that, if you don’t invest earlier, it’s going to be a problem,” she said. “I’m not saying that it’s the last minute, but we are in crunch time.”
But more privately, Democratic operatives expressother fears, including that Black influencers and media personalitieshave soured on Bidenand that the president himself has eschewed major interviews and less scripted campaign stops, making him less accessible to voters. Black leaders also see the community as open to the Donald Trump campaign’s targeted entreaties.
And while Black voters, according to surveys, are supportive of Biden policies —like student debt relief and funding for historic Black colleges— when they’re familiar with them, the stubbornness ofinflationremains a huge concern, as with the broader public. (Bidan didn’t fund Black Colleges, Trump didand he made it for 10 years, this guy is such a fucking thief.)
Those concerns could prove especially critical in the battleground states ofGeorgia, where Black people make up about 32 percent of the eligible voting population, and inNorth Carolina, where they account for roughly 22 percent. Even a slight dip in support among Black voters in states likePennsylvania— where roughly 10 percent of eligible voters are Black — could cost Biden the election.
Though Horsford said he believes the campaign has begun to make changes — on Wednesday, it launched “Black Voters for Biden-Harris” at a splashy campaign rally with the president and vice president at a Black college in Philadelphia — he also noted that he wasn’t the only notable Democrat to talk to the Biden reelection team about his fears.
Black Democratic operatives in the field say their research shows that theinformation gap problem Biden faces is severe, and that it’s causing adip in enthusiasm. In a recent North Carolina focus group of Black voters conducted by BlackPAC, those who backed Biden in 2020 said they felt thepromises he madeto their community hadn’t come to fruition. (In others words, he lied to them)
“When you tell people ‘Here’s what the Biden administration has done,’ particularly related to issues the Black communities care about, people are really surprised,” Adrianne Shropshire, the executive director of BlackPAC, told POLITICO. (what did they do, they have ruined the economy, etc?just wait to you hear the one accomplishment at the end. KEK)
The voters that BlackPAC has focused on are the working-class Black voters, who don’t attend Morehouse College or even end up in HBCUs. The PAC believes these voters have yet to hear about Biden’saccomplishments, and could determine the election results in several key states.
“It is thatdistinction between the MSNBC crowdand getting their political information fromsocial media sources,” said Cornell Belcher, who has conducted the focus groups for BlackPAC and was President Barack Obama’s pollster. “That’s really the big difference. If they are watching Joy Reid, they know Biden’saccomplishments. If they are spending time in the Shade Room or a dozen other social media news sites,[they] never hear that Biden used an executive order to ban chokeholds in federal office.” (What to fuck, why is that an accomplishment?These people are delusional, blacks have money problems like everyone.)
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/30/biden-black-voters-00160520
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Black voters are one of the most important blocs for Biden, with older Black women in particular having been the backbone for Democrats for years. But polling and focus groups show that young voters andBlack men have soured on Biden. A recent Washington Post poll foundthat just 41 percent of Black Americans ages 18 to 39 are certain to votethis year —down from 61 percentin June 2020.
A senior Biden campaign official said the campaign is not blind to the frustration from Black leaders or the importance of bringing back this voting bloc into the fold. The official acknowledged there was a lack of awareness of Biden’saccomplishmentsamong Black voters but argued that the campaign was sanguine in confronting the challenge. (What accomplishments?)
“If it was the flip side or the inverse and every Black person across the country knew everything that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris had done for their life, we wouldn’t need to advertise on pay media,” the official said. “We wouldn’t need to open field offices in that community to communicate that. So I agree with it in the sense that that’s what we have to do because that awareness [isn’t] there. But I don’t agree with the sentiment that somehow [we’re] waiting around or not talking about it.”
The Biden campaigninvested seven figures this month in Black media, including a series of new television and radio ads last week challenging Trump’s record with the Black community. Biden also met with family members of the plaintiffs from the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education case, invited the leaders of the “Divine Nine” — the historically Black fraternities and sororities — to the White House, spoke at NAACP events in Detroit and Washington, D.C., and delivered the commencement address at the storied Morehouse College in Atlanta. And this year alone, Biden has done 12 interviews with Black journalists or radio hosts, the most recent with D.L. Hughley on Wednesday. (What has he done besides talk?)
“Our campaign believes that Black voters deserve to hear from Team Biden-Harris, and they deserve to have their vote earned, not assumed,” the Biden campaign said in a statement.
But someBlack operatives worry that the overturesthat Biden and his team are making are directed toward thewrong slice of the electorate. W. Mondale Robinson, founder of the Black Male Voter Project, said Biden needed to venture outside of spaces that cater to a more elite, college-educated crowd.
“There’s only one type of outreach people are willing to do. And unfortunately for them, the outreach they’re willing to do is not significant,” Robinson said. “Talking to Black menat Morehouse, talking to Black men who own businesses —you’re not talking to the majority of brothers who are sitting out elections.”
The campaign argues that its approach to informing and winning over Black voters isholistic(it’s fucking pandering). In a recent podcast interview, Vice President Kamala Harris put a finer point on something the campaign has said before: They know they need to earn the support of Black voters, especially Black men.
“Black men are like everybody. You got to earn the vote,” Harris said. “Like any group, this is not a monolith. So let’s not just have the rote kind of talking points as though Black men only care about criminal justice.”
But time is running low in order to earn those votes. And there are a lot of votes to earn. An AprilWall Street Journal pollof seven swing states found that30 percent of Black men were either “definitely or probably going to vote” for former President Donald Trump— a jump from the12 percentof Black men who supported Trump nationwide in 2020. Those numbers haven’t just alarmed party officials, they’ve confounded them.
“This is blasphemy for me, as an Obama guy, I would argue, he’s got a better story to tell,” said Belcher. “[But], they are running out of time? If you say to me, Cornell, what worries you most? They have a shorter runway than they think.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/30/biden-black-voters-00160520
>>20946942 You know what your doom porn is old, stop posting the unfortunate meme with nothing memey about it.
>>20946950 yeah he really does fit in doesn't he?