Joe Biden enjoys healthy black support in early polls. But that support may be more precarious than he thinks, writes zakcheneyrice
Joe Biden. Photo: Joshua Lott/Getty Images Earlier this week, results from a USC/Los Angeles Times survey were published showing a “generic Democratic nominee” created by more than 5,100 primary voters from both parties. Their mandate was simple: to combine the traits they believed would fare best in 2020 against President Donald Trump into a single prototypical candidate.
Whether this assessment survives the debates is yet to be seen. But the takeaway is clear: Biden has a built-in advantage among black Democrats that both contradicts their preferred candidate profile and has been mercifully immune to his past as an anti-busing advocate and architect of mass incarceration.
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