According to The Wall Street Journal, the Democratic Party is losing support. Due in part to increased dissatisfaction with the economy and Joe Biden's leadership, black voter turnout fell during the 2022 midterm elections. And any decline in 2024 could end the president's hopes for re-election next year, as Democratic Party leaders are concerned that many of their previous supporters might back Republicans.
Horace Cooper, co-chairman of the Project 21 black leadership network, says black voters are unfairly castigated for being progressive.
"When you contrast black Americans with progressives — whether it's the death penalty, whether it's COVID policy, whether it's immigration — the progressives are way on one extreme, and black Americans are on the other," he submits. "I am talking about the center of the main strength of black Americans; they're way more centrist than progressives are."
Cooper says the Left erroneously assumes it can base a person's political affiliation on his or her pigmentation.
"For a long time, the Left has been effective at pretending they care about black Americans more than any other American political group might," he notes. "But the evidence is beginning to show, and that's the reason why surveys say Joe Biden is getting fewer percentages of black Americans than we've seen in 20 years."
A recent poll from The New York Times and Siena College found that 22% of black voters in six of the most important battleground states — Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin — said they would vote for former President Donald Trump in next year's election, and 71% would back Biden.
This is said to be a significant step up for Trump, who received 8% of black voter support in 2020 and 6% in 2016, according to the Pew Research Center.
It has reportedly been nearly 50 years since a Republican presidential candidate has won more than 12% of the black vote.
