The president needs something to change big time if he has any hope of continuing in this race. But now it’s only getting worse.
And Biden can’t breathe after bleeding support from the last place he ever expected.
The White House is losing their constituents faster than they can blink.
Even historically Democratic blocs are ditching the party for greener pastures.
Black voters are unlikely to extend the same level of support to Biden in the upcoming election as they have for Democratic candidates in the past, an analyst suggested in a recent op-ed for the Chicago Sun Times.
“Black voters are sick and tired of being ignored by the Republicans and taken for granted by the Democrats and are looking for ways, however imperfect, to express that frustration,” wrote David Cherry, president of the Chicago-based Leaders Network.
He is also the founder of the All Stars Project of Chicago and senior national organizer for the advocacy group Open Primaries.
“I’m a working-class Black man who has built a successful career in youth development and community organizing. But I’m neither a Democrat nor a Republican,” Cherry wrote.
“I am an independent activist and community leader in Chicago who organizes based on my love for poor and working-class people, the vast majority of whom are struggling to survive in the richest nation on earth.”
Cherry emphasized the personal struggles faced by working Americans due to a faltering economy. He noted that many Americans are putting in 70 to 80 hours a week, with over 60% living paycheck to paycheck.
Broadly speaking, Cherry continued, “[t]he entire country is feeling the stress of our political leaders’ inability to make our streets safe from violent crime, find answers to the border crisis, talk honestly about inflation and our spiraling debt or articulate a coherent foreign policy.”
While it’s possible that the majority of Black voters might still vote for Biden in November, Cherry warned that “the Democrats are severely underestimating the anger that is being expressed by the people who have been their most loyal voters and who feel locked out, left behind and abandoned.”
Cherry argued that both political parties failed to provide voters with a genuine opportunity to choose their candidates in this election.
“At exactly the time we need more debate, more competition and more ideas about how we can develop solutions and move forward as a nation, the Democratic Party’s message to Black voters in 2024 is that you have to vote for Biden,” he wrote.
Candidates need to inspire voters, Cherry asserted: “When a candidate inspires us, such as the Rev. Jesse Jackson in 1984 and 1988 and Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012, we enthusiastically go to the polls in huge numbers to vote.”
Cherry suggested that the frustration among working-class voters might lead many to either stay home on election day or support a candidate other than Biden.
“The days of Black voters automatically voting Democratic are over,” he concluded.
“And this growing independence offers new possibilities to create new coalitions which can create new solutions — for Black people and our entire country.”
If Republicans can tap into it, it’s over for the Left.
Stay tuned to the DC Daily Journal.
