Biden campaign plans to visit Georgia and Detroit this weekend to double down on outreach to Black voters

President Joe Biden is scheduled to visit with voters in Georgia on Saturday. graduation speech A new memo shared with NBC News by the Biden-Harris campaign says she spoke at Morehouse College on Sunday and headed to Detroit later that afternoon to meet with small business owners. He is also scheduled to address the NAACP that night. Neither of the additional stops on these trips had previously been announced.

The campaign says the purpose of the trip is to meet black voters where they are.

“This campaign will not take a single voter for granted,” campaign senior adviser Trey Baker wrote in a memo. “We do not and will not parachute into these communities at the last minute in hopes of voting.”

The Biden campaign declined to provide details about the president’s meetings with voters and small business owners in both states.

Early this week, Biden meets with family Testimony from the plaintiffs in the landmark 1954 Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education, which ruled that racial discrimination in America’s public schools was unconstitutional. And on Friday, Biden joined Vice President Kamala Harris at the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington before meeting with leaders of the Divine Nine, a group of historically black sororities and fraternities. I am planning to give a lecture.

The aid package comes as Mr. Biden seeks to capture voters who have overwhelmingly supported the Democratic Party, but whose support has softened slightly in recent polls.of latest nbc news Polls show that Biden is supported by about 58% of black voters ages 18 to 49 and 88% of older black voters. According to NBC News, 87% of black voters supported Biden as the presidential candidate in the 2020 election. Exit polling data.

Meanwhile, former President Donald Trump received about 25% support from young black voters ahead of this year’s election and 6% support from older black voters, according to an NBC News poll. Battleground states could decide the race. Since 1964, no Republican presidential candidate has received more than 13% of the black vote.

Biden’s visit this weekend shows his commitment to Black Americans, with the campaign also visiting cultural venues such as Dreamville Fest in North Carolina, according to the memo. black unemployment Record lows, government almost trying to forgive $160 billion in student loansthe campaign says. disproportionately affects black Americans.

It also comes as Biden faces increasing questions over his handling of the war in Gaza, which sparked the war in Gaza. Morehouse Concern and among democrats wider. Many critics have become increasingly frustrated with the government’s reluctance to call for a permanent and immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, even as Gaza officials claim the death toll is rising. ing. Over 35,000.

“Every day from now until Election Day, we will continue to pray that Black voters will send Joe Biden and Kamala Harris back to the White House this November and continue to serve Black America in unprecedented ways,” Baker said. I will continue to work diligently to ensure this.”

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Marquis Francis is a correspondent for Stay Tuned.