With Super Tuesday in the rearview and a Trump V. Biden rematch an almost certainty, the Biden camp is scrambling. They aren’t scrambling because Biden can’t put together two coherent sentences or because he is a fall risk every time he walks. Instead, they are scrambling because they are losing the key demographic that has held the Democrat party together for generations.
The former president has made massive inroads with the black community since 2020, and it has Democrats on pins and needles. Despite the clear evidence that the party perhaps doesn’t have the best interests of the community in mind, black support has never wavered. Even some of Biden’s questionable legislation, like the 1994 crime bill, which increased incarceration dramatically, and Kamala Harris as a prosecutor, oversaw more than 1900 marijuana-related convictions in San Francisco, the vast majority of which were black people.
Despite the track records of Harris and Biden, they still managed 87% of the black vote in 2020. Considering the country was coming off a primarily prosperous four years under Trump, particularly in the black community, the Democrats maintained and won the election. Four years later, with a handful of trumped-up indictments, Biden and the company are seeing the script flipping in real time.
According to a New York Times/Sienna poll recently released, the GOP frontrunner is enjoying a nearly 500% increase in support from the black community. The same poll in 2020 found Biden with a whopping 96% of polled black voters supporting the current president. So, what is behind the dramatic swing? Whether Charles Barkley wants to accept it or not, many black Americans could be sympathizing with Trump and his legal woes, most of which are Democrat-fueled fiction.
UnHerd said of the growing Dem crisis: “Biden largely held onto the black vote in the 2022 midterm elections, but young black voters moved a notable 22 percentage points towards Republicans. Inflation — a top issue for black voters that year — has since fallen, but food, gas and rent prices remain stubbornly high, which may encourage some to stay at home in November. Since the midterms, there has been little indication that those voters are coming back.”
The Democrats have already started touting Biden’s supposed achievements in the community, such as having a black Vice president and nominating Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, all the while conveniently forgetting that they did everything they could to torpedo Clarence Thomas’ appointment by George Bush in 1990, simply because he was a conservative. So far, it appears the messaging is falling flat with folks who are more worried about the economy and putting food on the table rather than the skin color of an elected official.
Rev. Devon Jerome Crawford, guest pastor at the famous Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, said: “Yes, we’ve had a Black president. Yes, we have a Black vice president. Yes, we’ve had Black attorneys general, we’ve had Black billionaires and celebrities. But for every Oprah Winfrey, there are thousands of Black folks living in squalor.” As the election nears and Trump gains steam, it appears the black community is focusing on the economic future instead of who Joe Biden gave a job to.
This week, in a telltale sign that trouble may be brewing, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was asked about Joe Biden losing black support. “In 2020, when the President won, in his victory speech, he thanked Black voters for their outsized role in his historic win. He said that he would have their backs. Obviously, polling and anecdotal reporting shows that a significant number of Black voters still feel that the President hasn’t completely had their backs or have not felt the impacts of this administration’s policies. How much of this speech does the President see as an opportunity to lay out what he believes he has done to have the backs of Black Americans?” she was asked.
Her response, was a shrug, a sigh, and “So, look, we understand that it’s — it’s complicated — right? — in the sense of what the American people have gone through the last three years. We came in, there was a pandemic and there was an economy that was in a tailspin. So, we get it. We get that Americans — some Americans are trying to still figure out where we are and what’s going on and what this administration has done. “
She continued, “But to your — to the beginning of your question about 2020 and the promise that the President has made, he did make a promise. And he has done everything that he can to keep that promise. If you think about voting rights, the first couple of days of this administration, he put forward an executive action to do everything that he could on the federal level to deal with — to deal with that issue. So, he did that. He took executive action when Congress could not move on the George Floyd Justice in Pol- — in Policing Act. You know that. You covered that. He took actions from — where he could from here, from the federal government.”
Continuing on, she said, “And so, look, there are other ways that he has taken action, obviously, to make sure that communities that have felt that they’ve been — that felt left behind are not left behind. And you see that in every — for example, every economic policy that he’s moved forward with, whether it’s the bipartisan infrastructure legislation, whether it’s the Inflation Reduction Act that really deals with making sure that we’re — that Medicare has the ability to — to fight Big Pharma — right? — so that many people in the community who’ve been paying hundreds of dollars for insulin — for example, now seniors are capped by 35 bucks. These things matter. These things add up. These things are important. And so, he takes that very seriously. When he walked into the administration, unemployment for the Black community, for example, was over 9 percent. Now it’s at 5 percent. That’s because of the work that this administration has taken. Think about the American Resc- — Rescue Plan — the — the Child Tax Credit really cut child poverty in the community by half. That’s because, obviously, the work that this President has done. That piece of legislation, only Democrats voted for it. So, the President has taken action. We understand that it’s complicated. It’s — it’s going to take some time for everyone to see what we — what this President has been able to do. The State of the Union is a perfect opportunity — perfect opportunity to lay that out.”
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