Former President Donald Trump is emerging with a voting bloc he may not have expected.
Black voters are flocking to Trump while abandoning President Joe Biden’s side, CNN’s polling average showed.
Support for Trump among Black voters rose to 22 percent compared to 2020, when the 45th president only had the support of 9 percent of the demographic.
Biden, on the other hand, saw his 81 percent support from Black voters in 2020 drop to 69 percent.
CNN data analyst Harry Enten said this could be a “worrying sign” for the Biden campaign, which depended heavily on black voters to take him to the White House the last time.
Former President Donald Trump waves as he attends the graduation ceremony for his son, Barron Trump, at Oxbridge Academy in Palm Beach, Florida, on May 17, 2024.
NAACP President Derrick Johnson greets US President Joe Biden at the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington DC on Friday. Biden is currently touring the country in an attempt to strengthen his dwindling support among black voters.
If the trend of black voters aligning with Trump continues, he could win a larger share of them than any Republican presidential candidate since 1960, Enten added.
“This would be by far the best performance by a Republican candidate among black voters in a generation, two generations, probably since 1960 and Richard Nixon against John F. Kennedy… This could be a truly historic margin.”
This comes as the two candidates agreed to debate twice: first on June 27 with CNN and again on September 10 with ABC News.
The polling average cited by CNN also found that Trump is most popular among black voters ages 18 to 49.
25 percent of them now say they support the former president, three times more than voters over 50.
‘Blacks for Trump’ protesters gather on the day Trump appeared in US District Court in Washington on August 3, 2023.
‘Blacks for Trump’ protesters show their support for Trump and his 18 co-defendants outside the Fulton County Courthouse on September 6, 2023 in Atlanta, Georgia.
The polling average cited by CNN also found that Trump is the most popular among black voters ages 18 to 49 and has much less support among older black voters.
Biden has still largely blocked older black voters, with whom he enjoys 82 percent support, but the under-50 category is starting to decline.
“This is what a lot of people have been talking about, that Joe Biden has a specific problem among younger black voters, and that’s exactly what shows up here,” Enten said.
“It’s these younger black voters who are turning against him and are much more supportive of Donald Trump than they were four years ago.”
Biden has certainly taken notice of the weakening of his coalition and is currently on a tour to assure Black voters that he is the right choice to be commander in chief.
“Black history is American history, we have a whole group out there trying to rewrite history, trying to erase history,” Biden said Friday at the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, DC.
Biden is seen giving a speech at the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, DC. It’s part of her effort to shore up support among black voters.
Audience members react as Biden speaks at the museum.
He added: “My name is Joe Biden and I am a life member of the NAACP.”
He was there to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the ruling in Brown v. Board of Education. The decision prohibited segregation in public schools.
And on Sunday, Biden will deliver a commencement speech at Morehouse College, a historically black liberal arts college in Atlanta, Georgia.
Georgia also happens to be a swing state that Biden narrowly won in 2020.
Trump maintains a 1.1 percentage point lead over Biden in a hypothetical general election matchup, according to RealClearPolitics.