{"id":2254773,"date":"2024-05-29T05:41:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-29T09:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-campaign-launches-black-voter-outreach-effort-as-minority-support-slumps\/"},"modified":"2024-05-29T05:47:58","modified_gmt":"2024-05-29T09:47:58","slug":"biden-campaign-launches-black-voter-outreach-effort-as-minority-support-slumps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-campaign-launches-black-voter-outreach-effort-as-minority-support-slumps\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden campaign ramps up outreach to black voters amidst declining minority support"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-campaign-launches-black-voter-outreach-effort-as-minority-support-slumps%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2254773&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>President Joe\u2062 Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris are actively\u2063 engaging black voters through the\u2064 &#8220;Black Voters for \u2062Biden-Harris&#8221; national\u200d program. This \u200cinitiative addresses the challenge\u2062 of generating enthusiasm among black voters,\u2064 a crucial demographic. The campaign includes outreach events, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/megadonors-pour-record-amount-of-money-into-get-out-the-vote-effort-for-dems\/\" title=\"Megadonors Pour Record Amount of Money Into \u2018Get Out the Vote\u2019 Effort for Dems\">voter registration efforts<\/a>, and collaborations \u2063with black organizations to strengthen voter engagement and protection. Trump also targets minority\u2064 voters, contrasting with Biden&#8217;s \u200dapproach.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/joe-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Joe Biden\">Joe Biden<\/a> and Vice President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/kamala-harris\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Joe Biden\">Kamala Harris<\/a> are making a concerted effort to reach out to black voters by launching \u201cBlack Voters for Biden-Harris,\u201d a national organizing program.<\/p>\n<p>The campaign within a campaign comes as Biden and Harris struggle to generate enthusiasm among a voter demographic that has supported them, and Democrats more broadly, in the past.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday\u2019s launch of the Black Voters for Biden-Harris coalition is yet another example of our campaign working diligently to earn every single vote,\u201d Biden deputy manager Quentin Fulks said Tuesday in a statement. \u201cThis coalition and the newly announced summer outreach and engagement programming serve as the next phase of our campaign\u2019s ongoing historic investments in outreach to the backbone of the Biden-Harris coalition \u2014 black voters.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Biden and Harris will announce \u201cBlack Voters for Biden-Harris\u201d during a campaign rally on Wednesday at Girard College, a majority black school in Philadelphia, before Biden is expected to attend a small business event with the Black Chamber of Commerce at a nearby black-owned small business later in the afternoon, according to the Biden campaign. There will then be a voter registration phone bank event, commencing a weekend of action.<\/p>\n<p>Biden is anticipated to underscore the black unemployment rate, black wealth, black healthcare insurance coverage, and black federal student loan debt forgiveness, despite poor public sentiment regarding the economy, during his remarks.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement will be supplemented by \u201can eight-figure investment in engagement programming\u201d with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/university-segregates-an-entire-floor-to-house-black-students-only\/\" title=\"University segregates an entire floor to house black students only\">black student organizations<\/a>, community groups, and faith centers nationally and in battleground states, in addition to advertising spending, per the Biden campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Other steps the campaign said it would take include:<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf Working with black organizations to increase black voter outreach and the campaign\u2019s presence in key states;<br \/>\u25cf Collaborating with groups on voter education and registration, both online and in-person; and<br \/>\u25cf Utilizing partner networks to strengthen voter protection efforts.<\/p>\n<p>Former President Donald Trump, who is once again Biden and Harris\u2019s Republican opponent for this November\u2019s election, made a similar appeal to minority voters last week in New York during a campaign rally of his own in the Bronx.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile we are busy putting in the work to earn black America\u2019s support, Donald Trump continues to show just how ignorant he is,\u201d Fulks added, \u201chosting janky rap concerts to hide the fact that he lacks the resources and competence to genuinely engage our community. We will continue to be aggressive, innovative, and thorough in our work to earn the support of the very voters who sent Joe Biden and Kamala Harris to the White House in 2020 and will do so again in 2024.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a fact sheet distributed by the Biden campaign, the campaign repeatedly described Trump as \u201cracist.\u201d It also addressed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jeffries-touts-inclusive-economy-as-bidens-2024-winning-strategy-amid-concern-of-losing-black-voters\/\" title=\"Jeffries promotes 'inclusive economy' as Biden's 2024 winning plan amidst black voter concerns\">black voter concern<\/a>: that Biden assumes their support without trying to earn their ballot.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s exactly what we are doing through historic investments in black media and outreach, creative engagement efforts, culturally competent content, and innovative organizing initiatives,\u201d the Biden campaign wrote. \u201cNo campaign has valued black voters like we have, including through investing earlier.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Although most black voters tell pollsters they support Biden over Trump, the president\u2019s margin of 59 percentage points, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/race-and-ethnicity\/2024\/05\/20\/an-early-look-at-black-voters-views-on-biden-trump-and-election-2024\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"77% to 18%\">77% to 18%<\/a>, is lower than it was in 2020 or for 2016 Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/politics\/2021\/06\/30\/behind-bidens-2020-victory\/#:~:text=Biden%20received%20the%20support%20of%2092%25%20of%20Black%20voters%2C%20nearly%20the%20same%20as%20Clinton%20received%20in%202016%20and%20Democratic%20candidates%20for%20the%20U.S.%20House%20received%20in%202018.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Pew Research Center-validated voter studies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Trump has sought to take advantage of those numbers by pitching himself to black voters, telling the crowd last week in the Bronx that \u201cit doesn\u2019t matter whether you\u2019re\u00a0black\u00a0or brown or white or whatever the hell color you are.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt doesn\u2019t matter,\u201d he said. \u201cWe are all Americans, and we are going to pull together as Americans!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris are intensifying their outreach to black voters with the &#8220;Black Voters for Biden-Harris&#8221; national organizing program. This specialized campaign aims to boost enthusiasm among a critical voter demographic that has historically backed them but is currently lacking in support<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2652,"featured_media":2254774,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/AP24138583215472-1-1024x683.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2254773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/AP24138583215472-1-1024x683.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2254773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2652"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2254773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2254773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2254774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2254773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2254773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2254773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}