Biden’s Challenge Now: How to Excite the Black Voters Who Rescued Him
- Black Democrats say they need proposals, not a sympathetic ear
- Biden worked this week to offer concrete plans for recovery
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Joe Biden’s political resurrection in the race for the Democratic nomination was due largely to overwhelming support from black voters. Yet racial tensions laid bare by nationwide protests have revealed a problem for Biden in the November election -- he doesn’t excite younger black voters who want change, not just a sympathetic ear.
Biden’s African-American supporters have been urging him to offer concrete solutions to the trifecta of crises hitting black voters in 2020 -- they are disproportionately harmed by the coronavirus, the recession and the police brutality that drew them into the streets. And they say not being Donald Trump isn’t enough.