President Biden's support among black voters may have believed in his beloved Philadelphia as a white house continues to struggle with poor polls.
The 80-year-old president received a frosty welcome in the City of Brotherly Love when dozens of residents in predominantly black neighborhoods were polled by the News from New York.
The outlet said they found only eight voters committed to voting for Biden in November. Some said they were standing with former President Trump while others planned to stay home.
come as CNN Polls found Trump has surged among black voters, with 22 percent of the population now supporting him compared to just nine percent in the 2020 election.
President Biden's support among black voters may have surged in his beloved Philadelphia as the White House continues to struggle with poor polls
Among the dozens of samples, only a fraction of black voters in Philadelphia said they were committed to supporting Biden, while some said they were leaning toward Trump.
While not a widespread showing in Philadelphia, New York Times polls of black voters in the city speak to issues that many pundits see as Biden's weak spots ahead of the election.
In particular, Biden's focus on foreign policy, including sending billions to finance conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East, appears to have turned off voters.
“I don't care what happens overseas,” said Latasha Humphrey, 36, who described herself as an infrequent voter who leans toward Trump.
“I care where I live.”
Several polls in recent months have found that Biden's support among typically Democratic demographics has declined in recent months, and young voters have also moved closer to Trump.
Notably, Biden still has significant leads among both young and black voters, with a new New York Times/Philadelphia Inquirer/Siena College Last week's poll found he has 69 percent support among black voters in Pennsylvania.
However, that number is 10 percent lower than their support in June 2020, and experts noted how Democrats routinely rely on large turnout to offset their lack of support in some suburbs.
In this recent poll, Trump had a three percent lead over Biden statewide, but Philadelphia City Councilman Isaiah Thomas warned that might not be enough to sway black voters to the ballot boxes
“It's going to be easy to convince people not to vote for Trump,” Thomas began. “It will be difficult to convince people to vote for Biden.
“They're two totally different fights.”
Former President Trump has seen a surge in poll numbers among both young and black voters, traditionally Democratic strongholds in the election
Trump's support among black voters rose to 22 percent compared to 2020, when the 45th president had the support of just 9 percent of the demographic.
Biden's black media director, Jasmine Harris, told the New York Times in response that the re-election campaign was not taking black voters for granted.
“(The campaign is) treating black voters as targets of persuasion, pouring the same resources into reaching them as you do for traditional voters.”
“We will really see the results of our black voter outreach campaign closer to Election Day,” Harris said in a statement.
New CNN polling averages also found that black voters are moving toward Trump, with their poll numbers rising to 22 percent compared to 2020, when the 45th president had only the support of 9 percent of the demographic population.
Biden, on the other hand, saw his 81 percent support from black voters in 2020 drop to 69 percent.
CNN data analyst Harry Enten said this could be a “worrying sign” for the Biden campaign, which he trusted black voters a lot to take him to the White House one last time.
If the trend of black voters aligned with Trump continues, he could win a larger share than any Republican presidential candidate since 1960, Enten added.
“This would be by far the best performance by a Republican candidate among black voters in a generation, two generations, probably since 1960 and Richard Nixon against John F. Kennedy. … This could be a truly historic margin.”
This comes as the two candidates agreed to debate each other twice: first on June 27 with CNN and again on September 10 with ABC News.
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