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By picking Kamala Harris as VP, Joe Biden is reaching out to young Black Americans
Aug 12, 2020 1 min, 11 secs

With his choice of Senator Kamala Harris as his running mate, Joe Biden may have helped bring young Black Americans to his side on Election Day.

Only 47 per cent of those Black Americans under 30 years old that we surveyed recently planned to vote for Biden, the presumed Democratic presidential nominee.

Our new survey of 1,215 African Americans in battleground states — Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Florida, North Carolina and Georgia — reveals that while those over 60 remain among the most reliable of Democratic voters, and those between 40-59 are still pretty locked in as well, those under 30 (whom we oversampled to comprise half of our sample) are anything but.

These young Black Americans may well sit things out in November, just as many of them did in 2016 when their behaviour swung that election to Trump as much as anything else did.

In our poll, 31 per cent of Black Americans under 30 say they probably won't vote in this election.

Such cynicism on the part of young Black Americans is reflected in the lukewarm feelings they tend to have toward the Democratic Party more generally.

In both the survey responses and in the focus groups we conducted of young Black Americans in these same states, we heard repeated frustration toward what they view as a Democratic Party that expects their vote but doesn't really do anything to deserve it other than claim to be "less racist" than the alternative.

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