Posted on 07/31/2023 9:11:14 AM PDT by Red Badger
Democrats are concerned that black voters won’t turn out for President Joe Biden in 2024 like they did during the 2020 election, according to The Washington Post.
Democrats are increasingly worried after the 2022 midterms saw a 10% voting drop among the crucial electorate, despite the party’s victories in the Senate, according to the Post. Party activists are now making it a priority to bolster turnout for black voters, particularly in key battleground states Biden narrowly secured in 2020 — Georgia, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan.
“The Democratic Party has been failing epically at reaching this demographic of black men — and that’s sad to say,” W. Mondale Robinson, founder of the Black Male Voter Project, told the Post. “Black men are your second-most stable base overwhelmingly, and yet you can’t reach them in a way that makes your work easier.”
Robinson argued that Democrats should focus on black men, who are “sporadic or non-voters,” rather than suburban “conservative-leaning white women,” he told the Post. Many Democrats told the Post their concerns are largely over black men and not women, who they expect to continue to show out for Biden so long as Vice President Kamala Harris is on the ballot.
Black voters are significantly less enthused about a Biden reelection campaign than they were in 2020, with only 55% saying they’re likely to support him in 2024, according to an early May AP/NORC poll. The same poll suggests that 81% of Democratic voters say they’d definitely or probably would support the president if he’s the nominee.
“We have to meet them where they are and we have to show them why the political process matters and what we have accomplished that benefits them,” Cedric L. Richmond, senior adviser at the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and former Biden adviser, told the Post. “We will not make the mistake that others made of not drawing all the connections.”
Terrance Woodbury, co-founder and CEO of HIT Strategies, a polling firm focused on minority voters, told the Post that Democrats need to emphasize how their policies benefit black voters rather than voicing concern over former President Donald Trump.
Sharif Street, a Democratic state senator in Pennsylvania, echoed Woodbury’s sentiment, and told the Post “being better than the Republicans is not always enough to get people motivated to vote.”
Brittany Smith, executive director of the Black Leadership PAC (BLP), told the Post she’s noticed black voters have changed their views about voting, and said they need more convincing to turn out than usual.
“There’s not a night I don’t go to sleep thinking about what turnout will look like in 2024,” Smith said.
Republicans are hoping to benefit from the Democrats’ loss of the key electorate, with some GOP strategists hoping social issues at the forefront of the Party will attract black voters, according to the Post.
“My guess is Democrats for the foreseeable future will continue to do well [with black voters], but I think there’s some cultural issues that don’t typically resonate with the black community as a whole and frankly a lot of minority communities,” Jay Williams, GOP strategist out of Georgia, told the Post. “Republicans will be able to peel some folks off based on that, depending on the area. It could be a real wedge issue for us.”
Biden’s campaign did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.
Come on FOX do this for all of us - all the 'communities' - be fair and balanced to all racial groups. NO MORE ONLY WHITE breakfast places.
Come on Jesse Watters... talk to management...
They’re going to have to stop counting an hour earlier next go around.
The hate machine is getting ready will the real people in power setting up the vote— the FBI—(Blood Pride—white supremist to march with torches and MAGA Hats) a few photos of these well paid clowns and Blacks will walk over glass to Vote Democrat. Just Push the MAGA People to resist and brand the whole lot as Putinistas and traitors and NPR will urge all women to Vote Democrat and punish Trump and his No-account inbred hillbilly followers with their banjos. Democrats can’t lose at the Ballot Box.
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Great idea, and let’s remember, breakfast starts at 4pm in the ‘hood.
>>Philadelphia, Baltimore and all the other locations will tally 95% for the Democrat and everyone will shrug and say “They always do that”.
I doubt that.. Philly and Baltimore usually report 117% Democrat and people shrug and say “They always do that, nothing suspicious there”. If, this time, they only report 95% Rat, that’s a major voting shift.
Is Clyburn losing his touch???
They only have to adjust the voting machines and those voters will turn out for Democrats whether they actually wanted to vote or not. 🙄
Another reason why blacks are being replaced by Hispanics.
*Irish were better slaves than blacks.*
I like that. It’s like saying black slaves learned trades to help with coping skills. An eye opener as well as a button pusher. We need more of it. I believe the statement had to do with indentured servitude-correct me if I’m wrong. It plant’s the seed to future solutions. The GOP would then have to offer a plan that covers all young folk. A new SSI plan, something else to think about which they don’t right now.
The GOP did not have a followup message to the Roe overturn. It was more like McConnell’s brain freeze.
Dems will make them turn out - by choice or by fraud
Democrats don’t care about voters.
They only care about ballots, that’s what matters.
Don’t worry, the ‘ballots’ will show up even if the voters don’t like the candidate. Without address, signature verification, real voter registration, and ID, the ballots will flow.
Black people are waking up to the history of the D party.
I will never understand why the majority of blacks vote Democrat, especially for these retards.
Two words:
Free Stuff........................
They’ll just burn a couple of black churches in the south.
It was indentured servant for the Irish.
I try to be creative and provocative
in my comments.
I can’t think of a single thing a Democrat proposes
I could agree with once we get the details.
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