In their home state of Pennsylvania today, they will visit Girard College, an independent boarding school in Philadelphia with a predominantly black student body, as well as a small business to speak with members of the Black Chamber of Commerce.
The stops in Philadelphia are the start of a campaign that will run throughout the summer to involve black student organizations, community groups and religious centers.
“We will continue to be aggressive, innovative and thorough in our work to win 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,” said Quentin Fulks, principal deputy campaign director. from Biden.
The initiative comes at a time when Biden has seen his solid support among black voters show signs of erosion, highlights the AP.
Among black adults, Biden’s approval rating fell from 94% at the beginning of his term to just 55%, according to an Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll published in March.
The economy has been a thorn in Biden’s side since 2022, when inflation hit a 40-year high. But there have also been signs of discontent in the black community more recently over Biden’s handling of the seven-month war between Israel and Hamas.
The participation of black voters could be crucial for Biden in the most contested states – Arizona, Georgia, Michigan Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
“Trump has already presented himself as a better president for black voters than Biden,” says the AP, recalling a rally held last week in the Bronx, where Trump attacked Biden on immigration issues.
In the Bronx, the former president stated that “the biggest negative impact” of the influx of immigrants in New York is “against our black and Hispanic population, who are losing their jobs, losing their housing, losing everything that you can lose.”
In response, the Biden campaign hopes to be able to remind black voters of some of the Democratic administration’s measures.
The unemployment rate among the black community has dropped — it is now 5.6% — and family wealth has increased.
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