Biden Has Failed The Black Community

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Biden’s Support Among Black Americans Has Plummeted As They Pay The Price For Biden’s Radical Agenda, Vaccine Mandates, And Soft-On-Crime Policies

THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IS ENGAGING BLACK AMERICANS

The Republican National Committee (RNC) is celebrating Black History Month by continuing to engage with the Black community and welcome new members into our Party of opportunity.
For the 2022 cycle, the RNC has made a multimillion-dollar commitment to continue our strategic minority engagement efforts, including in Black American communities across the country.
- Last year, the RNC formally opened two Black American community centers in Ohio and Georgia.
- The RNC is scheduled to open more Black American community centers in states like Florida, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania.
A record number of Black Republicans are both running for office and winning elections at all levels.
- There are over 40 Black Republicans running in GOP primaries for both local and federal office in 2022.
This commitment is not new; the Republican Party has a long history of electing Black leaders and empowering Black Americans through historic firsts.
- In 1870, Republican Hiram Revels (R-MS) became the first Black American to serve in Congress as a U.S. Senator.
- That same year, Republican Joseph H. Rainey (R-SC) became the first Black American member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
- In 1879, Republican Blanche K. Bruce (R-MS) became the first Black American to preside over the U.S. Senate.
- In 2013, Tim Scott (R-SC) became the first Black American to serve in both chambers of Congress.
- In 2020, Republican Mark Robinson became the first Black American elected Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina.
- In 2022, Republican Winsome Sears became the first Black female to serve as Virginia’s Lieutenant Governor.

REPUBLICANS ARE MAKING INROADS AS BIDEN’S SUPPORT AMONG BLACK AMERICANS IS FALLING

Biden’s radical policies have hurt the Black community, leading to Black voters increasingly rejecting Biden – and the Democrat Party – for failing to best represent their interests.
- According to a recent AP-NORC poll, Biden's presidential job approval has plummeted 34 points with Black Americans.
- According to a recent NBC poll, Biden’s support from Black Americans has dropped 19 points since April.
Not only have Biden’s policies failed Black Americans, but they come on top of nearly half a century of racist and racially insensitive remarks from Biden.
- During just the 2020 election, Biden declared that “poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids” and that “you ain’t Black” if you don’t vote for him.
Meanwhile, Republicans are committed to the Black community and continue to welcome new members into our Party of opportunity.

BIDEN’S FAILED ECONOMY LEAVES BLACK AMERICANS BEHIND

Black Americans are being left behind in Biden’s economy, burdened with higher prices and lower wages when accounting for inflation.
- Last month, Black unemployment and female Black unemployment both went up.
- Black teen unemployment remains above 20 percent, having risen nearly four percentage points since Biden’s inauguration.
In November, more than half of Black Americans reported struggling to pay their bills on time, a sharp 17 point increase from just this past summer.
Labor shortages across the country have caused Black-owned small businesses to struggle with staffing.
Bidenflation is hitting minorities hardest, with Black Americans forced to spend more of their of their paycheck on energy and food.
Under the Biden administration, homeownership among Black Americans has declined.

BIDEN’S VACCINE MANDATE TARGETS THE BLACK COMMUNITY

Biden supports Democrat vaccine mandates, which have disproportionality hit the Black community.
In America’s three largest cities – all run by Democrats – roughly 50 percent of Black residents are currently banned from going to restaurants, bars, and movie theaters.
The vaccine mandate has also hurt Black-owned businesses.
- In the “less wealthy South and West Side neighborhoods” of Chicago, business has “gone down dramatically” after the vaccine mandate was implemented.
- In Leimert Park, a predominantly Black community in Los Angeles, business owner Anthony Jolly said he believed that “people will make a decision to go elsewhere, where there is no mandate.”
Biden’s forced vaccine mandate is unpopular among Black Americans, with Biden’s approval rate dropping 12 points among Black Americans since its rollout.

BLACK AMERICANS ARE DISPROPORTIONATELY AFFECTED BY RISING CRIME

In Biden’s America crime is on the rise, often disproportionally impacting Black Americans in Democrat-run cities across the country.
- In 2021, Democrat-run Chicago experienced its deadliest year from violent crime in over two decades.
Biden’s open border policies have allowed drugs like fentanyl to pour into American communities, further contributing to the drug epidemic that has plagued minority communities.
- Black men are the most likely demographic group to die from a drug overdose.
As crime rates surge across the nation, Democrat officials are astonishingly still pushing to defund the police.
- Only 28 percent of Black Americans support the Democrats’ defund the police policies.
- Instead, Black Americans want police to retain a local presence and believe that defund the police is a “contributing factor to violent crime.”

UNDER BIDEN, BLACK STUDENTS ARE BEING LEFT BEHIND

Democrat-run cities continue to keep kids out of the classroom despite the fact that even Biden administration officials say it is safe to have children in the classroom full time.
These school closures have disproportionately hurt low-income and minority students.
Nationally, in majority Black schools, the share of students performing below grade level in math increased by 17 percentage points over the past year.
- In Charlotte, only 16 percent of Black and Hispanic third graders reached reading achievement goals last year.
On the campaign trail, Biden said he is “not a charter school fan” and pledged that charter schools would be “gone” if he was elected president.
- A clear majority of Black Americans support school choice.