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Political leaders say Black voters should be terrified of Project 2025

While Donald Trump, the former president and current presumptive Republican nominee, has distanced himself from Project 2025 – a conservative policy agenda billed as a playbook for his potential return to the White House – political leaders and elected officials are escalating their rhetoric about it and its implications, particularly for Black and brown communities.  On Wednesday, while delivering the keynote address at Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.’s 71st Boulé in Dallas, Vice President Kamala Harris warned that the 900-page […]

todayJuly 14, 2024

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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

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Black voters should know this about Trump and Project 2025

As President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump duke it out in 2024 presidential election, many are sounding the alarm about the dangers of Project 2025 and its implications for Black and brown voters.Project 2025, formerly called the 2025 Presidential Transition Project, is a wide-ranging manifesto of policy priorities and prescriptions for the next Republican president. If Trump reclaims the White House, the plan calls for several actions that would upend the federal government and, as critics argue, undo […]

todayJuly 3, 2024

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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

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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

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‘What the hell is a Black job?!’: Making sense of Trump and Biden’s debate spar over Black voters

Black voters’ concerns made it to the primetime stage during Thursday night’s presidential debate between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump. But following the four-minute exchange on issues concerning millions of Black Americans, many were left wondering what “Black jobs” are.  Rather than presenting his policy plans to improve the lives of Black Americans, Trump turned to his signature grumbling about migrants flooding the U.S. border. “His big kill on the Black people is the millions of people […]

todayJune 28, 2024

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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

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Ahead of debate, Black voters should know this about Trump and Project 2025

As President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump prepare to spar on Thursday in the 2024 election’s first presidential debate, many are sounding the alarm about the dangers of Project 2025 and its implications for Black and brown voters.Project 2025, formerly called the 2025 Presidential Transition Project, is a wide-ranging manifesto of policy priorities and prescriptions for the next Republican president. If Trump reclaims the White House, the plan calls for several actions that would upend the federal government […]

todayJune 26, 2024

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Watch: Former Dem nominee for Arkansas governor talks ‘media blackout’ and engaging rural voters

Chris Jones, the former Arkansas gubernatorial Democratic nominee, addresses an alleged media blackout during his race against now-Republican Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders. On theGrio’s “The Hill with April Ryan,” Jones opens up about his important role as national co-chair of Dirt Road Democrats PAC. After traveling across the state to earn the votes of Arkansans, Jones said many constituents in remote, rural areas told him that when it comes to leaders and politicians, “Nobody ever talks to us.” That is why he […]

todayJune 24, 2024