without it black vote Joe Biden wouldn’t make it Presidential candidacy in 2020 nor the election victory over Donald Trump months later. Now, as the November presidential election aims to pit him against Republicans once again. to worry is evident both in the campaign and in the Democratic field. Alienation from a vital part of their electorate.
Latest polls show that lack of enthusiasm For Biden et al. discharge In addition to black voters, young people are also among other segments of the coalition that gave him victory in 2020. There are also surveys showing this. up to 20% Black voters, especially men willing to vote embersIn 2020, it received only 8% of the vote. And there are polls like ‘USA Today’ and Suffolk University. one fifth Black voters say they would support a campaign today third party candidate In November.
These factors are a The perfect storm that could be deadly especially for the current president hinge states mobilization will be essential and some tens of thousands of votes They can be precise. No Democratic presidential candidate since the civil rights era has garnered less than 80% of the black vote.
Warning against extremism and racism
Fears clearly visible and openly acknowledged by Democratic leaders explain why Biden chose this choice. historic black mother emanuel charleston church (South Carolina), the scene of a racist massacre that left nine people dead in 2015, will deliver a second major speech to launch his campaign, which begins Friday on the eve of the anniversary of the attack on the Capitol. Very harsh intervention against Trump warned about the risks it represents for democracy.
That message resonated again on Monday, but this time “big lie” Denying the legitimate consequences of 2020 and debunking “MAGA extremism” from reality, Biden added those making racist undertones. He compared current Trumpism this way: “lost cause”The now obsolete theory that the cause the Confederates championed in the Civil War was a just defense of liberties, not an attempt to preserve them. slavery. He took the opportunity to indirectly criticize one of Trump’s Republican rivals, Nikki Haley, who recently refrained from citing slavery as the cause of the civil war. And he talked about persistence of white supremacy aspect “poison”.
Unhelpful policies and “broken promises”
Biden’s message, in any case, went beyond those complaints or reminders that he has taken steps such as religious conversion since his presidency. Juneteenth is a federal holiday, to announce National monument dedicated to Emmett Till and his mother was elected as vice president Kamala Harrisappoint the judge Ketanji Brown Jackson for the Supreme Court and there are more black female judges on the federal circuit than their predecessors. And a significant part of the focus is political and economic actions He benefited the black population during his duty and Efforts to forgive student debt (Stopped by Almighty) drug price control, decrease in maternal deaths decline among black women unemployment or fight against it inflation.
These are successes, as polls show and as the president’s allies know. They don’t resonate with the black populationPolls often talk about Biden’s presidency as follows:“broken promises” anyone “including”.
The trip to South Carolina was much more meaningful than using the symbology and significance of Mother Emanuel Church, near where Barack Obama made one of the most memorable interventions of his presidency after the 2015 massacre, singing ‘Magnificent Grace.’ .
The state was crucial in 2020 for Biden to pick up a victory that catapulted him to the nomination after poor results in Iowa and New Hampshire. And the president made a call change in primary calendar Democrats placed South Carolina residents as the first group to be officially endorsed by the party this year. They will happen on February 3.
This 2020 victory was largely thanks to Biden James ClyburnBefore his speech this Monday, the influential black congressman introduced himself by focusing on reviewing positive policies towards the black population. Clyburn was asked on television the other day if he was worried. lack of black voter mobilization This time it’s in favor of Biden, which comes at the same time as worrying news of other minorities and youth being demobilized or those questioning his Israeli policy as the humanitarian situation in Gaza worsens (which sparked a disrupted protest). Biden speech on Monday). Clyburn’s response was blunt: “I’m not worried, I’m very worried.”