Should Black Voters Decide to Let the Democrats Figure Midterms Out Without Our Vote There's a Reason for it.
With Biden's approval rating plummeting among Black voters by 20 percent since last year, a recent NBC News Report points to the situation Democrats find themselves in with Black voters.
2020 was one of the most vulnerable and perilous times Black Americans faced in over four centuries of life in this country. The coronavirus was disproportionately ravishing Black communities, and the high-profile deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery [among others] compounded the grief and trauma Black folks were experiencing collectively. At a time when uncertainty was heightened across the globe, Black Americans were especially susceptible to a myriad of hardships, whether it was economic, health-related or the threat of systemic, cultural and communal violence.
And at the time, Donald Trump was running the country.
By the second quarter of 2020, the field of prospective Democrats to face Trump was narrowed to two options: Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden, and before the second quarter ended it was obvious that Biden would be the nominee, as the nation, and specifically Black folks overwhelmingly rallied behind the concept of him being the only viable option to unseat Trump.
And then in November of that year, after the largest voter turnout in the history of presidential politics, Biden edged out Trump to become the 46th President of the United States — largely powered by damn near a homogenous Black vote.
Now, nearly two years later and 20 approval percentage points lower, the legacy of the Biden administration and the Democratic stronghold of the House and Senate are in a compromised position as Black America is polling at a place of uncertainty when surveyed about rallying around Democrats ahead of the 2022 midterms.
And I sure as hell don’t blame us.
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