Photo: Vice President Joe Biden gets a hug from U.S. Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC), July 23, 2010, in Columbia, S.C. (AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain)
There’s more bad polling news for President Joe Biden and the Democratic Party. Support from Black voters has fallen by double digits, according to a new CNN poll. This does not bode well for Dems in the critical midterm elections.
Back in 2021, Sen. Cory Booker warned that the Democrats would need the Black vote to win vital elections during the November 2022 midterms.
Biden’s approval rating has lost 20 points since the summer of 2021 when the president had the support of 87 percent of Black voters. Now that approval rating is at 67 percent, Mediate reported.
In 2020, Democrats won more than 77 percent of Black voters in House races. Current polling shows the party with only 62 percent among Black voters in House races.
“I want to put this in a historical comparison for you,” Network senior data reporter Harry Enten noted on CNN Newsroom. “This really gets at how low that 62-point margin is. Democrats have won Black voters by 75 percent or more in every single election this century.”
The last time Democrats had similar low ratings with Black voters was in 2004 when Democrats attracted 77 percent support for John Kerry, Enten said.
While the CNN poll did not go into the reasons behind the low poling, many experts think it is due to disappointment and frustration felt by Black voters.
“Biden made promises to Black people he hasn’t kept yet,” said William Joyner, a 54-year-old Democrat, in a New York Times interview. “A lot of people are upset with Biden. We have high gas prices. Everything is so expensive right now.”
There has seemingly been no movement on Biden’s much-touted “Lift Every Voice: A Plan For Black America,” which was a major campaign promise to Black America. Reparations have not moved forward and the government failed to pass any meaningful police reform.
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The Democratic Party needs Black voters. Black people vote overwhelmingly Democrat. Massive support of Black voters propelled Joe Biden and Barack Obama into the White House.
Still, CNN found that even though support for Democrats is waning among Black voters, these voters haven’t jumped to the Republican party. And the CNN poll concluded that even if Republicans “chip away at Democrats’ support with Black conservatives,” Black voters as a whole will remain “a very Democratic group.”
Photo: Vice President Joe Biden gets a hug from U.S. Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC) during the dedication ceremony of the new Ernest F. Hollings Special Collections Library, July 23, 2010, in Columbia, S.C. (AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain)
