While polling suggests President Joe Biden remains significantly more popular with black voters than his GOP rivals, Democratic allies believe one thing has caused him to lose support among the voting group.
Biden won the South Carolina Democratic primary by a landslide margin on Saturday, but turnout was notably diminished, leading some critics to air concerns about enthusiasm for the president’s reelection bid. South Carolina’s Democratic Party Chairwoman Christale Spain told NOTUS the turnout was due to “people not knowing the information” rather than a lack of enthusiasm.
“We needed to educate our voters and create a space for our candidates to come talk about their record,” Spain said. “That’s really why we launched this historic effort, to fill what I feel is an information gap and not an enthusiasm gap.”
The president has lagged in polls with key minority voting groups, including with black voters. Democrats typically win the vast majority of black voters, but a USA Today-Suffolk University poll released last month showed Biden with only 63% of the black vote, which is roughly 24% lower than what he got in 2020.
Democratic National Committee Chairman Jamie Harrison echoed Spain’s concerns, attributing the low turnout to disinformation while defending Biden’s record.
“I think there’s a lot of disinformation out there,” Harrison told NOTUS. “There are a lot of folks who don’t want this president for whatever reason, and I think some foreign and some domestic. They don’t want the record to be straight in terms of what this president has done and accomplished.”
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As part of its 2024 push, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, which helps elect Democrats to the House, announced an initiative last month aimed at combating disinformation aimed at black, Latino, Asian American, and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander voters, among other things.
The Biden campaign has also focused on courting black voters by participating in black church services in South Carolina in the lead-up to the primary in the state.
