from w nyc studios i'm brian lerer this is my daily politics podcast it's wednesday may 29th the presidential

campaign president biden and vice president harris will be in philadelphia today. WPVI Channel 6 TV in Philly

quotes the Biden campaign is saying this is the launch of a summer long effort to engage

black student organizations, community groups, and faith centers. It comes as polls continue to show

Biden weaker with black, Latino, and younger voters

than he was in 2020, and inflation topping the concerns of most voters of any demographic.

So the Philly TV report says Biden and Harris will stop at Gerard College, an independent

boarding school with a predominantly black student body, and they'll visit

a small business to speak to members of the Black Chamber of Commerce in Philadelphia.

How bad is Biden's decline in popularity among some of the key voter groups he needs to win?

Eric Levitts from Vox, who will talk to in just a minute, he specializes on divides within the Democratic and Republican parties.

Eric Levits gives these numbers for some context. He writes, in many polls, Biden's level of support among white voters and senior citizens is comparable to his 2020 marks. Yet he has lost an extraordinary

amount of standing with young and non-white voters. Four years ago, Biden won voters under 30 by 23

points, black voters by 79 points, and Hispanic ones by 35, according to the Democratic data firm catalyst that he cites.

Now he writes, the latest New York Times poll of battleground states shows Trump leading Biden by

three points among young voters. Yes, I said Trump leading Biden by three points among young voters.

Last week, a Fox News poll of voters nationwide found Biden tied with

Trump among those under 30 in a two-way matchup. When third-party candidates were included, Trump led

Biden by 10 points with younger voters as Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took 16% of the group support, and obviously more

from Biden than from Trump. That from Eric Levitz. Who joins us now? Some of you may know him as a

former columnist for New York Magazine, where he explored the, what he calls the diploma divide

in politics, among other things. Now he reports for Vox

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