Good morning. No Republican presidential candidate has received more than 13% of the votes of Black Americans since the civil rights era. In the race against probable nominee Donald Trump, Black voters are again likely to be Democrat president Joe Biden’s most reliable constituency. But in recent months, that support has started to erode.
This week, Joe Biden has tried to do something about it, with a visit to the Black church in South Carolina where a white supremacist killed nine people in 2015. He linked Trump’s 2020 election denialism to the Confederate rebellion over slavery that prompted the civil war, and told his audience: “Once again, there are some in this country trying to turn a loss into a lie.”
