President Joe Biden plans to visit Georgia before meeting with voters on Saturday commencement speech Sunday at Morehouse College, before heading to Detroit to meet with small business owners in the afternoon, according to a new memo shared with NBC News by the Biden-Harris campaign. He will also give an NAACP speech that night. None of the additional stops on these trips have been previously announced.
According to the campaign, the purpose of the visits is to meet black voters where they are.
“This campaign is not going to win over any voters,” said Trey Baker, the campaign’s senior adviser. “We are not and will not parachute into these communities at the last minute, we are waiting for their vote.”
The Biden campaign declined to provide more details about the president’s meetings with voters and small business owners in the two states.
Earlier this week Biden met with family members Among the plaintiffs in the 1954 Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education, which ruled that racial segregation in American public schools was unconstitutional. On Friday, Biden is scheduled to speak with Vice President Kamala Harris at the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington before meeting with leaders of the Divine Nine, historically Black sororities and fraternity groups.
The campaign comes as Biden seeks to woo a base that has historically supported Democrats by large margins but has seen a softening of support in recent polls. The The latest NBC News the poll shows Biden has the support of about 58% of black voters aged 18-49 and 88% of older black voters. According to NBC News, 87% of blacks supported Biden for president in the 2020 election. exit poll data.
According to an NBC News poll, former President Donald Trump won the support of about 25% of young black voters and 6% of older black voters ahead of this year’s election. war zone states could decide the race. Since 1964, no Republican presidential candidate has received more than 13% of the black vote.
Biden’s visits this weekend demonstrate his commitment to Black Americans, the memo said, with the campaign also visiting cultural venues such as Dreamville Fest in North Carolina. Black unemployment is reaching record highs and the administration is almost scrambling to forgive $160 billion in student loansthe campaign says disproportionately affects Black Americans.
It also comes as Biden faces growing questions about his handling of the war in Gaza. Concerns at Morehouse and among the Democrats more broadly. Many critics are increasingly frustrated by the administration’s reluctance to call for a permanent and immediate ceasefire in Gaza, as officials there say the death toll is rising. exceeded 35,000.
“Every day, from now until Election Day,” Baker wrote, “we will continue to work hard to send Joe Biden and Kamala Harris to the White House in November to continue delivering Black voters in an unprecedented way to Black America.”
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