Former President Donald Trump’s support among black Americans is surging ahead of the 2024 election, polling from GenForward shows.
The black vote is a key demographic that has heavily favored Democrats for the past 50 years. Trump won 8 percent of black voters in 2020.
Meanwhile, polling shows President Joe Biden has a growing problem with retaining the support of black and Hispanic voters. New York Times/Siena College polling in November found the president’s support among nonwhite voters sank 33 points compared to 2020 election results:
- Only 72 percent of black voters support Biden, along with only 47 percent of Hispanic voters.
- Democrats lost ground among black and Hispanic voters in nearly every election in the last ten years.
- Biden is in the worst position among nonwhite voters since Walter Mondale in…
