(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) Democrats have expressed growing and panicked concern that black voters would not support President Joe Biden in the 2024 presidential election.
Originally published in the Washington Post, high-ranking Democrats based their concern on the steep decline in participation between the 2018 and 2022 midterm races.
The voting bloc dropped from 51.7% in 2018’s midterms to 42% in 2022, according to Brietbart.
Founder of the Black Male Voter Project, W. Mondale Robinson, found that many black men were “sporadic or non-voters,” despite being registered.
He claimed that Democrats spent too much of 2020 in attempts to convert “conservative-leaning white women” who they considered to be swing voters.
The assessment claimed that black male voters feel alienated from both political parties.
Democrats expressed concern that the left’s current obsession with former President Donald Trump could push black voters away.
“When you think about election cycle to election cycle, [black voters] have been telling us for a long time what matters,” said Brittany Smith, executive director of the Philadelphia-based Black Leadership PAC. “They want to put food on the table, a roof over their head, send kids to good schools, live in neighborhoods that are safe.”
“I don’t think the issues are new, it’s the way we talk about them and the way we’re centering the voice of the people who live in these communities.”
In the 2022 midterms, the GOP gained large shares of black and Latino voters.
Other polls leading up the midterms displayed a disenchanted attitude towards President Biden, with his rating among black Americans falling 14 points since April 2022.
The Biden administration is notorious for pandering to the black community, and despite their best efforts, it does not seem to be paying off.
The constant contradictions between the liberals and the black community are likely part of the problem—such as the censorship of Simon Ateba, a reporter for Today News Africa who received a formal warning after he attempted to ask critical questions in the White House press room.
