The Black voters disappointed in Biden
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🗓️ 12 October 2021
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Summary
The “benefit of the doubt” portion of Joe Biden’s presidency is over. His poll numbers are down, especially among Black voters. Today on the show, we return to some of the voters we talked to in Georgia during the state’s runoff election and hear how they’re feeling now.
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A little over nine months into Joe Biden’s presidency, the infrastructure bill is languishing in Congress and his poll numbers have fallen, especially among key Democratic constituencies, including Black Americans. We’re still a year away from the midterms, but it made reporter Cleve Wootson wonder: Are the same people who worked so hard to turn Georgia blue in 2020 willing to do it again?
“If midterms are about enthusiasm and turnout, who do you think is excited to vote on November 2 at this moment?” said Nsé Ufot, chief executive of the New Georgia Project, which has registered more than a half-million voters. “Because it ain’t Democrats. It ain’t Black folks. It ain’t young people.”
Today on Post Reports, we revisit Georgia.
Listen here to our episode from December ahead of the two Senate runoffs in Georgia.
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| 0:57.6 | Back at the beginning of January, Joe Biden went to Georgia to get out the vote. |
| 1:02.8 | This was after Biden had been elected as president, but just before these two runoff |
| 1:07.5 | races that would determine control of the Senate. |
| 1:10.4 | And in this big speech, Biden told Georgia Democrats, and especially black Georgia Democrats, |
| 1:15.9 | these runoff races were the key to so many of the things they wanted. |
| 1:20.2 | Politics reporter Cleve Wootzen was there at the time. |
| 1:22.8 | Biden came to Georgia, and in very simple terms said, if you vote for us, this is what |
| 1:32.3 | we'll do. |
| 1:33.3 | Like if you vote for us, we'll move heaven. |
| 1:35.2 | The only thing stopping you from getting these things that are important to you are these |
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