'He needs to stay': CNN struggles to find Black voters who want Joe Biden to drop out
5 months, 1 week ago

'He needs to stay': CNN struggles to find Black voters who want Joe Biden to drop out

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CNN's Eva McKend traveled to the Dallas convention of Alpha Kappa Alpha, the nation's most prominent historically Black sorority organization, where Vice President Kamala Harris, herself a former member, delivered an impassioned speech warning of the dangers of former President Donald Trump. What McKend found was that few of the Black women gathered there shared the view of the Beltway punditry, or a growing number of congressional lawmakers, that President Joe Biden should exit the race over his age-related energy issues — despite the fact that many were passionate fans of Harris, who would herself be a beneficiary of such a move as the default successor to Biden's nomination. EXCLUSIVE:Trump’s ‘secretary of retribution’ has a ‘target list’ of 350 people he wants arrested "Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have a plan for 2024 and on, so I just want them to enact that plan," 31-year-old Dennisa Thomas, a systems engineer from Kansas City, Missouri, told McKend. National polling paints a bit more nuanced of a picture; Black voters remain one of Biden's most supportive voting blocs, but many polls show even they are divided over whether the president should remain in the race, with a recent New York Times/Siena College poll finding a narrow 47-43 plurality of Black voters favoring his exit.

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