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Watch: Historic poll of Black voters finds Harris has higher approval than Biden

On this week’s episode of theGrio’s “The Hill with April Ryan,” a new historic poll of Black Americans gives what could be the most accurate depiction of how Black voters feel about the Biden-Harris administration and national issues ahead of the Nov. 5 election.The survey conducted by the Black Futures Lab shows that among 211,000 Black Americans, Vice President Kamala Harris has a 71% approval rating. President Biden follows closely behind, with 68% of Black Americans approving his job performance. […]

todayJuly 7, 2024 2

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At Essence, Black Democrats rally behind Biden and talk up Harris

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — As President Joe Biden tries to revive his embattled reelection bid, Vice President Kamala Harris led a parade of Black Democrats who warned Saturday that the threat of another Donald Trump presidency remains the most important calculation ahead of November. Yet in more than 20 minutes on stage at the Essence Festival of Culture, Harris did not acknowledge Biden’s dismal debate performance or calls for the 81-year-old president to end his reelection bid. In fact, she barely mentioned Biden at all — […]

todayJuly 7, 2024 1

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Clyburn’s discussion of a ‘mini-primary’ fuels more Biden angst

NEW YORK (AP) — He is often credited as the man who delivered the Democratic nomination to Joe Biden with a pivotal endorsement four years ago. But on Wednesday, Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C., sent a resounding message to the president and elected officials across the nation that it may be time to move on. Clyburn, a Biden campaign co-chair, outlined a process to replace Biden during an interview with CNN. Should Biden step aside, Clyburn said, he expects a “mini-primary” featuring Vice […]

todayJuly 4, 2024

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Harris tries to hold the line for Biden as some Democrats panic

WASHINGTON (AP) — By the time Vice President Kamala Harris stepped into her third fundraiser since President Joe Biden’s disastrous debate last week, she had her routine down. Yes, she conceded to a few dozen donors in San Francisco, the president’s performance was “not his finest hour.” However, she said, “the outcome of this election cannot be determined by one day in June.” It’s not the kind of rhetorical two-step that any running mate would want to be practicing just over four […]

todayJuly 4, 2024 1

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Why these Black voters won’t give up on Joe Biden

Depending on who you ask, last week’s presidential debate was the unofficial end of President Joe Biden’s campaign for reelection or a new beginning. On one side, major editorial pages and politicos called for the president to step aside after a high-stakes debate during which he lost his train of thought at crucial moments and struggled to respond effectively to the onslaught of lies from former President Donald Trump.   At a time when Biden, 81, needed to convey physical strength […]

todayJuly 2, 2024 3

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Voters may be stuck with Biden, but Democrats shouldn’t pretend we didn’t see what we saw during the debates

Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. In spite of the immediate panic his poor debate performance sparked last week, as of now, it remains more likely than not that President Joe Biden will stay on the ballot in this year’s looming presidential election. So, his supporters have devised a plan to fix matters, which includes asking voters to essentially hurry up and get over what […]

todayJuly 1, 2024 1

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Here’s a look at some of the false claims made during Biden and Trump’s first debate

President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump traded barbs and a variety of false and misleading information as they faced off in their first debate of the 2024 election. Trump falsely represented the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol as a relatively small number of people who were ushered in by police and misstated the strength of the economy during his administration. Biden, who tends to lean more on exaggerations and embellishments rather than outright lies, misrepresented the […]

todayJune 28, 2024 1

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Harris acknowledges Biden had a ‘slow start’ in debate and tries to calm Democratic fears

WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris acknowledged that President Joe Biden had a “slow start” in his debate against Donald Trump on Thursday night, but she insisted that he finished “strong” in a performance that triggered a new round of concerns within their own party about Biden’s fitness to be their standard-bearer. “It was a slow start. That’s obvious to everyone. I’m not going to debate that point,” Harris said in an interview on CNN following the debate. “I’m […]

todayJune 28, 2024 1

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What Biden needs to say to persuade Black voters at presidential debate

The historic primetime presidential debate between U.S. President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump will be consequential for Black voters, an influential voting bloc that both Biden and Trump have heavily courted on the campaign trail. Though Biden won 92% of the Black vote in the 2020 presidential election, compared to the 8% who voted for Trump, national polling shows the president has a way to go to reach the level of support he did four years ago in […]

todayJune 27, 2024 2