Black lawmakers and community leaders aligned with Joe Biden have spent months issuing a not-so-subtle warning to the president’s reelection campaign: The incumbent’s message isn’t getting through to many black voters, particularly men and younger voters, and time is running out for the campaign to change course.
Recent shifts in strategy have some black lawmakers feeling confident that things are looking up ahead of an election that could be decided by tens of thousands of votes in a handful of swing states. “We’ve been working with the campaign on this,” representative Maxwell Frost (D., Fla.) told National Review earlier this month, praising the Biden campaign for ramping up advertising and canvassing in black communities. “Trump has made a play for black men specifically, but I think we’ll be able to get that back as we get closer with the campaign.”
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