Anjali Sharma
GG News Bureau
WASHINGTON DC, 3rd Jan. David Paleologos, Director of Suffolk’s Political Research Center on Tuesday said that although Trump hasn’t grown support among Black voters, he has closed the deficit because third-party voters come off of Biden’s support among Blacks.”
David Paleologos said “A young voter or a person of color voting ‘third party’ is a vote away from President Biden, and a vote away from President Biden is a vote for Donald Trump.”
There is more potentially good news for Biden: Views of the economy are brightening. Now 29 per cent say the economy is in recovery, a jump of 8 percentage points since the survey in late October, he said .
In the wake of positive reports on employment, inflation and the stock market, that’s the highest level since August 2021.
Biden’s running mate in 2020, and Vice President Kamala Harris’ standing lags among Black voters, young ones.
On the Democratic side, Biden faces no significant challenge for the nomination. In the poll, 74 per cent of likely Democratic primary voters support him. Nine per cent back inspirational author Marianne Williamson and 2 per cent Minnesota Rep. Dean Phillips; 15 per cent are undecided.
Biden problems loom in November, with the erosion of his coalition in the general election.
His team has dispatched Vice President Harris as a natural emissary to university campuses, including some historically Black colleges.
She is the first Black and Asian-American to serve as Vice P:resident, and at age 59, she is a generation younger than Biden, who is 81.
Harris’s connection to very wealthy families in New York (Steve Jobs’ wife and oil billionaire Paul Getty’s family), has drawn donations to the party as swinging the young Black and Hispanic voters in Biden’s favour in 2020. But the demographics are now fast changing.
