Joe Biden doesn’t need to worry about his prospects in South Carolina’s Democratic primary next week. He’s got that locked up.
He also knows he’s not likely to win the solidly red state come November. It hasn’t voted for a Democrat since 1976.
He’s spending this weekend in the state nonetheless, intent on driving home two messages: He’s loyal to the state that saved his campaign in 2020 and he’s determined to win back Black voters here and elsewhere who were central to his election last time but are less enthused this go-round.
Biden will be the keynote speaker Saturday night at the state party’s fundraising dinner ahead of its first ever “first-in-the-nation” Democratic primary on Feb. 3. He’ll stick around to attend a political event at St. John Baptist Church on Sunday, in a state where politics and faith are intertwined.
Maybe he should start with not saying shit like “ if you don’t vote for me, you ain’t black.”
Considering he’s only said that once (over three years ago), I wouldn’t say he started with that.
Saying it once was fucking stupid.
Agreed.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Deputy campaign manager Quentin Fulks said of the primary that Biden’s team was working to “blow this out of the water” by running up the score against longshot challengers.
The Biden campaign also wants to learn lessons about activating Black voters — the backbone of the party — ahead of an expected 2024 rematch with GOP front-runner Donald Trump.
Last year, at the outset of Biden’s reelection bid, conflicting views among the same South Carolina Democratic voters whose support had been so crucial to his nomination provided an early warning sign of the challenges he faces as he tries to revive his diverse winning coalition from 2020.
Biden’s campaign has also hired staff in South Carolina to organize ahead of the primary and through the general election, although for nearly 50 years the state has picked a Republican for president.
Meanwhile, a pro-Biden super PAC, Unite the Country, is airing an ad featuring Democratic Rep. Jim Clyburn of South Carolina ticking through what he says are major Biden accomplishments such as reducing student loan debt and cutting insulin costs for older people.
He spoke earlier in the month at the pulpit of Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, where nine Black parishioners were shot to death in 2015 by a white stranger they had invited to join their Bible study.
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Canadian here. Why aren’t black voters as interested now?
538 had a podcast episode about it. His base of immigrants, black, and young voters are still solidly in support, but less enthusiastic. As in, instead of 90% of the black vote, it’s 80% or less. But with such tight elections, that small shift matters.
As for why, it’s not clear, but it’s probably just the gloominess about everything. Despite spending like they’re optimistic, and being optimistic about their personal situations, Americans report being pessimistic about the economy as a whole.
Might have something to do with the fact that inflation wasn’t a problem until wages started rising. Then Biden, Yellen and Powell went full force into attacking what, corporate profits? Price gouging billionaires?
Nope. Those greedy American workers with their remote work and long overdue raises.
The procorporate trash Democrat party can’t handle class consciousness.
Nope. Those greedy American workers with their remote work and long overdue raises.
What? Biden hasn’t made any comments like that. Are you a troll?
Biden set Yellen and Powell in a fight against American workers for having the audacity to finally get some long overdue wage increases. All three of them have blamed inflation on wages rising instead of corporate greed.
Biden has also vocally opposed working from home for federal employees.
That makes zero sense. Even if you think he’s cartoonishly evil, why would he complain about wage increases? Biden has been playing up the historic increases in wages. He mentions it all the time. It’s good for him politically.
Some of them are starting to realize there were much better candidates in the 2020 primaries but they went with Obama’s recommendation and got Biden elected.
Win them back with what?
Maybe stop going out of your way to help continue a genocide, Joe.
INB4 Papa Joe adopts a cringe-inducing urban locution.
Donny has been making the rounds with his token negro, Tim Scott. I guess Joe says he wants to do some of that.
Hopefully they will refuse to keep being tokenized and abandon the party
Abandon the party and vote for who exactly? The overt racists?
The guy who still thinks the central park five should be executed…
I’m going to vote for him because At least I know he’s racist, instead of hiding it. /s
That’ll teach those damn Democrats /s
Neither is an option, but supporting the party of covert racism surely isnt the answer
I don’t get this. According to polling, the Democratic Party has shifted further to the left on black social justice issues than blacks themselves. Forgiving student loans is a great example, since it disproportionately helps middle class black families more than middle class whites families. Only Dems have proposed and passed police reform, like eliminating qualified immunity. This just seems like another simplistic low information take.
Forgiving student loans is a great example
Except he negotiated down on that and failed to deliver.
What are you talking about?
Student loan forgiveness wasn’t an act of congress, so he did not have anyone to “negotiate down” with. His first executive order was struck down by SCOTUS. But he hasn’t backed down and has forgiven over $130 billion through various methods.
Can you not make stuff up? There’s enough misinformation on the internet.
so he did not have anyone to “negotiate down” with
Biden found a way
Can you not make stuff up?
Can you stop participating in conversations you clearly know nothing about?
That’s not what “negotiate” means.
And he didn’t “fail to deliver”. You’re objectively wrong about it, which is why you didn’t even attempt to defend yourself.
The real answer would be to start their own political party and try to break us out of this nonsensical FPTP system.
FPTP can still work if we eliminated the electoral college which would force politicians to earn votes, eliminate primaries, which helps keep the oligarchy in power, one general election on election day, 1 term for the president, and fixed term for Congress. And the ability to remove a politician from power if they dont represent their constituents. And there’s no reason we couldn’t have remote voting via app on election day
Feel like you’d have better odds reducing / eliminating FPTP then doing everything else you listed here. There are already states with ranked choice, after all.
