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Biden is literally the most popular president for Blacks in US history, blowing past Obama. Historic!

LOL Some HN racist Trump voter downvoted this. Facts hurt!

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They are not so much pro-Biden as anti-Trump.

Biden literally won the Democratic primary entirely due to the Black vote in South Carolina. Why act like they don't love him?

They don't love him. They hate Trump. How hard is it to understand?

It's like giving a vegan the choice between meat and their least favorite veggie. They don't love that veggie, but they will pick it over the meat.

Parent post was talking about the Democratic primary, not the presidential election. Hatred for Trump doesn't explain why Biden would do well among black voters in a race that's not against Trump.

Biden is going to be the most pro-Black President in history, even more than Obama (due to a better political climate).

He literally ran his campaign as a repudiation of Charlottesville and White supremacy. (See: His announcement speech.) Biden's VP is Black, and he personally insisted on that.

Racial justice is literally the core of Biden's platform, and he'll deliver for Blacks (and against White supremacists) like no other President in history.

That’s a lot of very hopeful projection on somebody who was in office for 40 years and didn’t exactly vote pro-black.

Joe had a 20% approval rating and Harris had a 5% approval rating with young democrats during the primaries.

How the party managed to ram through two extremely unlikable candidates and smash Obama’s vote record is simply miraculous.

https://iop.harvard.edu/about/newsletter-press-release/18-29...

Biden the Beloved!

But yes, miraculous—or maybe Americans didn't want to vote for another President who is clearly comfortable with White supremacy? Biden's entirely campaign was a repudiation of that worldview.

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