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Amy Walter and Sophia Cai on how Biden and Trump are working to win Black voters

PBS News Hour - Segments

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4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report with Amy Walter and Sophia Cai of Axios join Amna Nawaz to discuss the latest political news, from an A-list fundraiser in Hollywood to a roundtable at a Black church in Michigan, the two leading presidential candidates were in search of campaign cash and votes this weekend. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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From an A list fundraiser in Hollywood to a roundtable at a black church in Michigan, the two

0:06.4

leading presidential candidates were in search of campaign cash and votes this weekend.

0:11.4

It's a perfect time for politics Monday. That's Amy Walter

0:14.3

of the Cook political report with Amy Walter and Sophia Kai of Axios. Tamara Keith

0:19.6

is away. Great to see you both. So President Biden was in California at this fundraiser,

0:26.0

not to the single biggest Democratic fundraising hall

0:28.0

with a $30 million event there with some Hollywood celebrities.

0:32.0

Meanwhile, former President Trump was in Michigan trying

0:34.8

to appeal to black voters and we've seen in recent polling that he's made some inroads.

0:39.4

USA Today numbers from earlier in June show in both Michigan and in Pennsylvania.

0:45.0

Mr. Biden's seen some slip of that support there.

0:48.6

It's down to now 54% of black voters in Michigan and 56% in Pennsylvania. percent of

0:54.1

black voters in Michigan and 56 percent in Pennsylvania.

0:54.8

For Mr. Trump that's up to 15 percent and 11 percent.

0:58.4

Amy is worth pointing out the numbers for President Biden in 2020

1:01.8

were over 90 percent among black voters.

1:04.5

How do you look at those now?

1:05.8

Yeah, and that for Trump, even though as you say 11%, 15% doesn't seem very significant,

1:12.0

that's double the support that he got in a state like Pennsylvania

1:16.0

where he got 7% of the black vote.

1:19.8

This is something clearly the Biden campaign is seeing too.

1:21.9

This isn't just in public polls.

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