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‘Consequences and repercussions’:
Post-debate Democratic infighting endangers Black support
6 Jul 2024 ~~ By Cheyanne M. DanielsBlack Democrats are watching with alarm and frustration as the party devolves into infighting in the wake of President Biden’s lackluster debate performance last month.
Black voters make up a critical part of the coalition that sent Biden to the White House in 2020, and their support is essential should he stay in the race for another term.
A recent highly watched New York Times/Siena College poll found a large percentage of Black voters feel Biden is too old for the job — but the same survey also found the president had in fact improved his support with the demographic after his faltering debate performance against former President Trump led to growing calls for him to withdraw.
Now, some Black Democrats are worried about how the debate fallout will impact an election whose stakes they feel couldn’t be higher.
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Though the president remains adamant he will not be dropping out of the race, Cliff Albright, co-founder and executive director of Black Voters Matter, said what is generating even more trouble for the party is the debate around who would succeed Biden should he change his mind.
“Our expectation would be that the successor would be Kamala Harris,” Albright said. “Black folks have not at all taken well to this Hunger Games-type approach to who the successor would be. If the party messes around and reads a process that skips over the obvious successor of Vice President Harris, there’s going to be consequences and repercussions in terms of Black turnout.”
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Shropshire said the president was put in a difficult position, as the question itself conflated a multitude of issues without a singular focus, but added that he could have been more “forceful” in his answer.
Albright added that though the question was a missed opportunity for Biden, what did stand out was just how much the president was able to hit on in his response.
“The fact that there is substance there to actually talk about, the fact that he got jumbled up because there’s a laundry list of things that he could have said to address it — that’s what’s more important to Black voters,” said Albright.
“No Black voter that I’ve talked to, or that we’ve talked to as an organization, thinks that his inability to speak clearly and eloquently in the debate is somehow an indication that the other person would be better.”
Commentary:
From all the calculations and reports, this election DJT will garner more than 20% of the black vote even if Kamala replaces Biden.
It's no secret that the DNC and their power brokers won’t let Harris run or win. She was a token and they’re rooting for a white man to run against Trump.
Democrat, Neo-Marxists and especially Biden in particular do not like Blacks. If the Blacks ever figure this out, the Democrats will be in trouble.
Remember Joe has said, "You ain’t black if you don’t vote for a Democrat any Democrat", Commie, KKK, or Muslim it don’t matter demands the Democrat overlords!
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