High numbers of Black voters haven’t yet decided who they’re going to vote for in the 2024 election, according to a new survey.
Polling from the Alliance for Black Equality, conducted between October 2 and 4, indicates that 10 percent of Black voters are still undecided, with less than 20 days to go until the election. It also shows that Harris is trailing behind her predecessors among Black voters, with 73 percent of the demographic supporting her, compared to 88 percent for Hillary Clinton in 2016 and 87 percent for Joe Biden in 2020.
According to the survey, Harris’ declining support is down to a “gender-generation gap” in the Black electorate, whereby support for both Biden and Harris has been soft among millennial and Gen Z Black voters generally, with about one in four millennial and Gen Z respondents reporting support for Trump. But support for Harris has been especially weak with Black men in those cohorts, with only 49 …