Biden: As New York "But Her Emails" Times Flips Out the Black Base Holds the Line
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Biden: As Elites Flip Out the Black Base Holds the Line
FROM SPEAKER SCOTT AND SEN. LOCKE TO 2RAWTOOREAL, THE BASE STANDS BY BIDEN. The New York “but her emails…” Times, still pissed that President Biden hasn’t granted them an interview, went there.
To Serve His Country, President Biden Should Leave the Race, the headline from the Editorial Board read. It landed less than 48 hours after President Biden debated former President Donald Trump.
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Black Gen Y influencer, Kenneth Walden, aka @2RawTooReal, wasn’t having it. His first defense of Biden landed on X and gained almost 1 million views in less than two days. The social media post was a lengthy recounting of all of President Biden’s accomplishments in office.
Other influencers and elected officials who represent the vital base of the Democratic Party continued to support the President. Even as momentum built around the idea of replacing the President with someone else.
“Voters, however, cannot be expected to ignore what was instead plain to see: Mr. Biden is not the man he was four years ago,” The “but her emails” New York Times stated in an unprecedented editorial. But the difference between what’s written by those sitting on 8th Avenue in New York and voters in battleground states is wide.
In the real world, the base of the Democratic party, Black voters, had different reactions. That difference was seen on social media, on zoom calls and in real life. Black voters put Biden in office in 2020. Black voters in Milwaukee, Philadelphia, Atlanta and Detroit were the difference in the election. A fact not forgotten by Donald Trump who has often railed in an endless tirade of lies focused on cities with substantial Black population as the reason the election was “stolen” .
“We stand with @JoeBiden! Trump oversaw food lines and asked people to treat Covid by drinking bleach!” wrote Virginia’s historic House Speaker Don Scott on June 29. Speaker Scott then noted a key difference in Republican and Democratic messaging: The GOP ability to stay on message no matter what disaster arrives.
“Trump found liable for sexual assault. Republicans backed him! Trump indicted time and time again. Republicans backed him! Trump convicted 34 times! Republicans doubled down! Biden has protected reproductive healthcare, had record low unemployment, record investments in job creating clean energy tech jobs, oversaw new highs on @Nasdaq @NYSE and S&P and forgiven student loans! Thank you very much-I’m standing with @JoeBiden!,” Speaker Scott added on social media on June 29.
Many defenses of Biden included references to his record and references to the many lies, moral deficiencies and references to retribution as related to Donald Trump.
Then arrived the Philadelphia Enquirer in a counter to The New York Times.
“Lost in the hand wringing was Donald Trump’s usual bombastic litany of lies, hyperbole, bigotry, ignorance, and fear mongering. His performance demonstrated once again that he is a danger to democracy and unfit for office,” wrote the Editorial Board of the Philadelphia Enquirer on the evening of June 29.
The Enquirer, located in a key swing state in a vital city for Democrats tossed a counter-punch directly at The New York Times. In Virginia, which may be a swing state as well, freshman Delegate Michael Feggans wrote:
“As a former professional athlete, we'd practice many times, and sometimes we have a bad game, and it happens. But I have absolute confidence in President @JoeBiden to make sure he steers our nation into the future with a steady, moral hand,” wrote Senator Aaron Rouse on Biden on June 29.
Senator Rouse, who is running for Lt. Governor in Virginia in 2025, used the “it was one bad night” talking point that former Speaker Nancy Pelosi would launch during her Sunday, June 30 interviews on CNN and MSNBC.
Will that talking point work? Only time will tell. But the concept of “a bad night” is a tough sell since the party has been dealing with the Biden “age question” for over a year.
In February of this year, concerns regarding Biden’s age popped again after a special counsel appointed by Trump, Robert Hur, noted in a report that Biden was 'a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.' That received heavy pushback by a number of Democratic surrogates using the same talking points and saying that President Biden was sharp behind the scenes and in meetings.
The swing state of Georgia, a state Biden won in 2020, featured two Atlanta Mayors (former and current) kicking in to support Biden as news swirled on his debate performance:
“I can think of a lot of reasons to call on a candidate to dropout, including violently trying to overthrow an election, demanding 11k more votes from the Secretary of State, felony convictions, sexual assault, and indictments in Fulton County. With all due respect @ajc, please stick to covering the news instead of trying to make it and let the voters decide,” wrote former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms.
The sentiment that the elite “mainstream” press has allowed Trump to skate for far too long as he remains endlessly centered in controversy after controversy is a point several Black Democrats have hit hard.
As Biden meets with his family at a previously arranged gathering at Camp David this weekend news is emerging that those closest to him are asking questions about how President Biden performed at what the strategy of his staff was going in to Thursday night.
Already a major Democratic donor, John Morgan of the powerhouse law firm Morgan & Morgan, has weighed in… HARD! As reported in The New York Times today:
Needless to say, how donors weigh in will play a major part in what happens next. Meanwhile, the base forges ahead with 128 days left to Election Day and early voting in Virginia starting weeks beforehand.
On a previously scheduled Black voter strategy campaign call on Saturday, June 29, many of Virginia’s top officials discussed how to inspire the base for November. With about 30 campaign staffers and many events planned for July, the efforts built around informing voters of Biden’s record are likely to increase.
One key senior Virginia lawmaker on the call emphasized the need for Democrats to back their nominee for President — just as Republicans back Trump no matter what he does. As Trump opens campaign offices in Virginia and Biden deals with debate fallout, Democrats will be pressure to redouble their efforts in Virginia.
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