President Joe Biden’s 2024 re-election campaign is facing declining support amongst black voters, amidst growing indications that his likely opponent, former President Donald Trump, is gaining momentum with the same demographic.
Two recent polls from Quinnipiac and Fox News show a significant increase in black support for former President Trump in a 2024 rematch with Biden – with the former President garnering 20 percent compared to just 8 percent in 2020. The Quinnipiac poll also indicates that over a third of the Black electorate – 35 percent – has an unfavorable opinion of President Joe Biden.
These recent polls are reinforcing a fear in the Biden campaign that the President is facing declining enthusiasm among one of his core voter demographics. Biden’s failure to deliver on his 2020 campaign promises has forced Democrats to abandon positive messaging and instead focus on trying to place blame for policy failures on Republicans as well as stoke fear about the future of ‘democracy’.
Appearing at a recent town hall hosted by the Congressional Black Caucus, Vice-President Kamala Harris told attendees, “We are looking at a full-on attack on our hard-fought, hard-won freedoms.” Regarding the 2024 election, Harris added, “So much is at stake, including our very democracy.”
The Biden campaign co-chair, Cedric Richmond, believes the campaign needs to pin much of the President’s policy failures on the U.S. Supreme Court, “It’s the court that just rolled back equity, and we’re going to point to it.” Richmond was referring to the Court’s recent decisions striking down Biden’s student loan forgiveness program and the landmark ruling against affirmative action.
As for Joe Biden himself, it would seem the President intends to continue to campaign on the state of the U.S. economy, embracing the term ‘Bidenomics.’
Writing in the Washington Post on the anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s 1963 March on Washington, Biden stated, “Our plan — Bidenomics — is working…we’re advancing equity in everything we do making unprecedented investments in all of America, including for Black Americans.” According to the Quinnipiac poll, nearly 40 percent of Black voters disapprove of Biden’s handling of the economy.