Biden's outreach comes on heels of New York Times/Siena poll that reveals not only is US President trailing Trump in pivotal battlegrounds but he is also losing support among Africa n Americans and youth over his support for Israel's war in Gaza.Biden greets a campaign volunteer and her children during a campaign event at a community center in Racine County, Wisconsin, U.S., May 8, 2024.
On Thursday, the 81-year-old Biden marked the 70th anniversary of a famous US Supreme Court ruling that overturned racial segregation in schools by meeting with key figures and relatives of plaintiffs in the case in the Oval Office. On Friday, Biden visits the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington to give remarks to celebrate the anniversary of the Brown decision.
"He will also highlight his vision for how we must continue to build on these freedoms," added Jean-Pierre, who is the first Black person to serve in the role.Then on Sunday, Biden will address graduating students at the historically Black Morehouse College in Atlanta. Its most famous former student is civil rights leader King.
A senior White House official recently met students and faculty members at Morehouse to discuss objections to Biden delivering the commencement address, NBC News reported."There's a lot of legitimate concern. I think people have a right to protest, to do it peacefully. And I respect it," Biden told an Atlanta morning radio talk show.
Trump is winning more than 20 percent of Black voters in the poll — which would be the highest level of Black support for a Republican presidential candidate since the Civil Rights Act was enacted in 1964,But a participant in Thursday's White House gathering, Derrick Johnson, President of the country's major civil rights organisation NAACP, disputed the narrative that there has been"an erosion" of support among Black voters and said polls have been wrong in several recent...
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