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According to a video that his official X account posted online, President Joe Biden recently spent some time with a black father and his two sons, but it drew widespread ridicule and condemnation.
“It’s great to spend time with Christian and Carter and discuss their involvement in their community and school,” Biden’s account noted in a post with the video.
Several X users noted, however, that Biden’s outreach appeared to be straight-up pandering to black voters, who, according to several recent polls, are abandoning him in droves.
“Here’s Joe Biden again pandering to the black community. Americans are sick of this division. Black people make up 13% of the population yet almost 100% of Biden’s recent campaign videos. Remember what Biden said about blacks who don’t vote for him?” conservative commentator Paul A. Syzpula wrote in response to the video, in which he included a clip of Biden, the 2020 candidate, telling Charlamagne Tha God that if African-Americans didn’t vote for him, “they ain’t black.”
Others suggested that the Biden team’s choice of food – fried chicken fingers for his black hosts — was also inappropriate stereotyping.
“Lmao I want to meet the Biden staffer who woke up and said ‘uh, today is black outreach day. Quick. Let’s order fried chicken,'” conservative Laura Loomer wrote.
“This man buys black kids chicken fingers and talks to them about basketball and I’m not supposed to laugh??” another account noted.
“Yeah the Pres of the United States is in your house having dinner… so you order take out fried food and then eat out of styrofoam… got it,” another user wrote.
Here’s Joe Biden again pandering to the black community.
Americans are sick of this division.
Black people make up 13% of the population yet almost 100% of Biden’s recent campaign videos.
Remember what Biden said about blacks who don’t vote for him?pic.twitter.com/TmSXGYl0fQ
— Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 (@Bubblebathgirl) February 12, 2024
A new NBC News survey is horrendous news for President Joe Biden as his reelection campaign, such as it is, gets underway.
According to the poll, which was released Sunday morning, Biden’s approval is at an all-time low of just 37 percent, leading a Democratic pollster to comment the “damning” results indicate a “presidency in peril.”
Per Newsmax, citing the survey:
Former President Donald Trump not only leads Biden by 5 points (47%-42%) in the national poll, but he leads by:
- 23 points on mental and physical health to be president (46%-23%).
- 22 points on handling the economy (55%-33%).
- 21 points on dealing with crime and violence (50%-29%)
- 16 points on being competent and effective (48%-32%)
- 11 points on improving America’s standing in the world (47%-36%)
- 35 points on securing the southern border (57%-22%).
The ongoing illegal immigration crisis has become the No. 1 issue for most GOP primary voters, according to the report, though Democrats are increasingly becoming fed up with Biden’s lax border enforcement policies as more migrants are shipped to major cities.
“What is most concerning is the erosion of Biden’s standing against Trump compared to four years ago,” Democrat pollster Jeff Horwitt of Hart Research Associates told NBC News.
“On every measure compared to 2020, Biden has declined. Most damning, the belief that Biden is more likely to be up to the job — the chief tenet of the Biden candidacy — has evaporated,” Horwitt continued.
The current numbers appear favorable for Trump and “difficult” for the incumbent as they enter the core of the 2024 primary season, Republican pollster Bill McInturff of Public Opinion Strategies offered.
“It is hard to imagine a more difficult set of numbers before a reelection,” McInturff told NBC News.
The survey is also the latest to show Biden losing ground with younger voters who have traditionally gone for Democrats.
“A major through line in what ails Biden most are his travails with younger voters,” Horwitt noted, per Newsmax.
Among these demographic groups, Trump has made notable progress. While he still faces a significant deficit among the black vote, he has managed to lead among Latinos by a slim margin of 42 percent to 41 percent. Additionally, he is tied with voters under the age of 35, both garnering 42 percent support.
