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No one really thinks the GOP is about to win black voters. That’s not what we’re talking about here. The point is that black voters have for decades been the most devoted Democratic constituency. It was always a given that 90+ percent of black voters were going to vote for the same party every time. But Joe Biden may be causing that to change, at least in 2024. Last week team Biden held a meeting at the White House to discuss what to do about the fact that he appears to be slipping with black men.
Several attendees said there was general agreement that Mr. Biden, during both his 2020 campaign and his first three years in office, had paid more attention to Black female voters than to Black male ones. These people said they had suggested to Mr. Biden’s aides that the president needed to make a specific argument about how his administration had improved the lives of Black men.
“It’s clear that there’s been a focus on Black women and the question becomes, has there been an equal focus on Black men?” said Cedric Richmond, a former Louisiana congressman and Biden administration official who is now a senior adviser at the Democratic National Committee and who was at the meeting…
Polling released by The New York Times and Siena College last month found that 22 percent of Black voters in six of the most important presidential battleground states said they would support Mr. Trump against Mr. Biden next year, an alarming figure for Democrats given Black voters’ decades-long loyalty to the party.
Last week another survey seemed to back up the general trend described in the NY Times poll.
In the GenForward survey released on Tuesday and shared first with POLITICO, nearly 1 in 5 Black Americans, 17 percent, said they would vote for former President Donald Trump.
