Donald Trump Gets Bad News From Black Voters

By James Bickerton, Newsweek

The proportion of Black voters in seven key battleground states who would vote for Joe Biden against Donald Trump has surged by 15 points, according to a new survey for BlackPAC.

Between February and June, backing for Biden went from 50 percent to 65 percent “if the election for President were held today” and the pro-Trump share declined from eight percent to seven percent. The proportion backing third party candidates Jill Stein, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Cornel West fell from 17 percent to 11 percent, and those who were “undecided” also fell, from 25 percent to 18 percent.

President Biden is facing calls to step down from the race from within his own party following the first presidential debate on June 27, during which the Democratic incumbent at several points appeared to lose his train of thought. On Thursday speaking to journalists at the NATO summit in Washington D.C. Biden mistakenly called Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky “President Putin,” and described Vice-President Kamala Harris as “Vice-President Trump.”

Brilliant Corners Research & Strategies polled 800 likely Black voters in Georgia, Michigan, North Carolina, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin by telephone between June 23 and June 29 with a 3.46 percent margin of error. Brilliant Corners says it has previously served as chief pollster for the Democratic National Committee, whilst BlackPAC seeks to “galvanize Black voters to the polls.”

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