Should Joe Biden Really Be Worried About Black Voters?

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DETROIT ― President Joe Biden plans to address an NAACP gala dinner here on Sunday night, following a week of outreach to Black voters that has included a speech at the National Museum of African American History and Culture and multiple interviews with media outlets that target Black audiences. He’ll be coming here directly from Atlanta , where he plans to meet with Black voters before giving the commencement address at Morehouse, a historically Black men’s college.

Officially, the impetus for all of this is the 70th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education , the landmark Supreme Court decision striking down school segregation and its toxic principle of “separate but equal.”

Unofficially? Biden is on a mission to shore up support among what has long been one of the Democratic Party’s most loyal constituencies.

He may have some serious work to do.

If you are a left-leaning voter who follows politics closely, then you were probably gnashing your teeth about a New York Times/Siena College pollof six swing states that came out Monday. And it wasn’t just because the poll showed Biden trailing former President Donald Trump in five of them.

In that poll, Trump got more than 20% of the Black vote, which would be a higher share than any Republican presidential candidate has gotten since the 1960s. And it wasn’t some kind of outlier. Polls have been picking up similar results for months.

Those less favorable results would still leave Biden with the vast majority of Black voters. The problem is that it will be difficult for Biden to win if he can’t get the kind of backing from Black voters he got in 2020, when his support among