Just under one in five black Americans – 17 percent – have indicated that they will vote for Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election, representing a nine-point increase in support among black voters compared to 2020, according to a recent survey from GenForward.
The survey questioned nearly 3,500 people, including large numbers of black Americans. Pollsters found that another 20 percent of black voters said they would choose “someone else” other than Trump or President Joe Biden.
The incumbent President has hemorrhaged a staggering 28 points among black voters since 2020, in which he received 91 percent of the vote. As of this month, just 63 percent said they would support Biden.
The results of the survey have already terrified Democrats, with one long-term Democratic pollster, Cornell Belcher, forced to dismiss the results by declaring, “Polling numbers at this point are not predictive of the future.”
“It is possible, and we’ve seen it before, that a higher number, in particular Black men because of a kind of hypermasculinity of Donald Trump, could vote for Trump [again],” said Cathy Cohen, the far-left director of the GenForward project at the University of Chicago.
