Anjali Sharma
GG News Bureau
WASHINGTON DC, 3rd Jan. According to some media reports on Tuesday stated that US President Biden is at risk of losing the young Black-Hispanic vote bank in his run to retain the presidency in 2024 over his stance on the Israel war in Gaza as one in five Black voters say they will support a 3rd party candidate and Palestinians express disappointment for his not halting the conflict.
USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll, revealed that Biden’s failure to consolidate his victorious 2020 support from Black and Hispanic voters has left him narrowly trailing his predecessor Donald Trump in many states.
It said that an alarming weakness has seen of the Democratic base, with Trump leading among Hispanic voters and young people.
One in 5 Black voters now says they’ll support a third-party candidate in November. The odds are that the candidate is Robert Kennedy Jr, grandnephew of John F. Kennedy.
The votes aren’t going to Trump, but going away from Biden, increasing the gap with Trump.
In a new USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll, Biden’s failure to consolidate support in key parts of the coalition that elected him in 2020 has left him narrowly trailing Trump, the likely Republican nominee, 39 per cent to 37 per cent, while 17 per cent support an unnamed third-party candidate.
Media reports said that Trump’s lead inches up to 3 percentage points, 37 per cent-34 per cent, with independent Kennedy Jr. at the top of the third-party candidates at 10 per cent. The findings underscore the formidable political task the President faces this year to win a second term. .
Michelle Derr, 55, a Democrat who plans to vote for Biden said “I think he’s done a reasonably sound job, but it’s not been a ‘wow’ administration,”
The small-business owner from Alexandria, Virginia was among those surveyed.
“For me, it’s disappointing that we have two old white guys in this race again. I want to look forward to the future.”
Biden claims the support of just 63 per cent of Black voters, a sharp decline from the 87 per cent he carried in 2020, according to the Roper Center.
He trails among Hispanic voters by 5 percentage points, 39 per cent-34 per cent; in 2020, he had swamped Trump among that demographic group 2 to 1, 65 per cent -32 per cent.
The voters under 35, a generation largely at odds with the GOP on issues such as abortion access and climate change, Trump leads 37 per cent-33 per cent. Younger voters overwhelmingly backed Biden in 2020.
The possible good news for Biden is that much of the support he needs to rebuild has drifted to third-party candidates, not into the camp of his likely opponent.
It added that 20% of Hispanic and Black voters and 21 per cent of young voters, now say they’ll back someone other than the two main contenders.
