(ProsperNews.net) – Black voters are disillusioned with President Biden as support drifts away. In 2020, the president had support from 90% of black Americans, but polling shows this is down to around 50%, according to an Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs survey.
Reviews of 2020 election results also note the importance of the black vote for Biden and how it helped him secure the Democrat nomination. Having poorly performed in Iowa, New Hampshire, and Nevada, Biden secured a bolstering victory in South Carolina, mainly on the basis of his promises to black voters.
One year into his Presidency, black Americans had already begun to pull away from Biden, and his approval rating was at 60%. George Hart, a professor and adviser to the student chapter of the NAACP at Benedict College, supported the President in South Carolina because he promised to reform voting rights legislation, but later said he was “disillusioned.”
The Freedom to Vote: John R. Lewis Act, which passed through the House of Representatives in early 2022 but fell in the Senate, promised to turn election day into a national holiday, increase secure early and mail-in voting, and allow the Justice Department to intervene if it believed states engaged in voter interference.
During the debate on the legislation, Biden compared opposition to segregation and said any measures aimed at limiting voting rights amounted to “Jim Crow 2.0.” Such measures include attempts by GOP lawmakers to tighten voter ID requirements and stricter punishments for election fraud. GOP-controlled legislatures introduced several bills in 2022 aimed at preventing alleged cheating by Democrats, but opponents said Republicans were deliberately trying to disenfranchise electors.
Liz Avore, senior adviser with the Voting Rights Lab, said many of the new bills would “criminalize good faith errors.”
Measures proposed include an ID requirement for mail-in ballots, early voting time reductions, and a ban on people returning ballots that are not their own. Critics said the plans would disproportionately affect black and Hispanic voters.
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