Clyburn Lets Slip Biden's Strategy: Blame Low Support From Black Voters on GOP, 'MAGA-Leaning SCOTUS'

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Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC), who acted as Joe Biden's savior during the 2020 Democrat primary, either accidentally or purposely, let slip in a new interview what strategy the Democrat Party is planning to employ during the election to regain Black voters on Biden's behalf.

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His remarks come after the latest New York Times/Sienna College Poll of 2024 battleground states was released showing former President Donald Trump trouncing Biden not only in several states Biden won in 2020 but among Black Americans -- something that has progressives like Clyburn freaking out. My colleague Mike Miller wrote: (emphasis mine)

Per the polling data, while Trump leads Biden in five of the six most important battleground states — all of which Biden carried in 2020 — just one year out from the election, Biden continues to suffer from growing serious doubts about everything from his age to his mishandling of the economy to the never-ending border crisis to now, his potentially ominous handling of the Israel-Hamas War.

The Times/Sienna Poll shows Biden losing to Trump by margins of three to 10 percentage points among registered voters in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, and Pennsylvania. Biden leads in only Wisconsin — and by just two points, at that.

Their report continued with the bad news for Democrats:

Black voters — long a bulwark for Democrats and for Mr. Biden — are now registering 22 percent support in these states for Mr. Trump, a level unseen in presidential politics for a Republican in modern times.

It's no wonder Dems are flocking to friendly outlets like MSNBC to spread their narrative that someone else is to blame for Biden's poor numbers with Black voters. Check this out from his sit-down with MSNBC's "Morning Joe" program on Friday:

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An incredulous Joe Scarborough asks him: "Do you believe Joe Biden is doing that poorly among Black voters?"

Clyburn answered:

Absolutely not. Let me tell you what you are seeing there. People are focusing on some of the unfinished business. Sure, I’m disappointed, as any other black person, that we have not been able to renew the Voting Rights Act, but we are going to show why.

But guess who's fault it is: the GOP House and "conservative, MAGA-leaning Supreme Court" justices:

Why haven’t we done it? Because this conservative, MAGA-leaning Supreme Court has desecrated the Voting Rights Act, and we have not been able to get the Republicans in the Congress to renew it. And so a lot of black people are disappointed that that has not gotten done.

Cylburn also bemoaned the fact that Democrats were unable to renew the increase in the child tax credit, which he said "a lot of black people" are upset about. 

That is very important in the African-American community. So when you ask the polling information, that’s what they give you. ‘No. I’m dissatisfied that we have not done these things.'

Not one word about staggeringly high inflation hitting all Americans' pocketbooks, on everything from food to gas to mortgage payments. These are all things the Democrats and Joe Biden caused with their reckless policies on stifling domestic energy production -- and of course, pushing through the ridiculously named Inflation Reduction Act on Biden's watch.

This isn't the first time the congressman has piped up about the presidential election and Democrats' plans for how Biden might maneuver during it. As my colleague Sister Toldjah wrote in September, Clyburn appeared to fire a warning shot at Biden over any hint of dropping Vice President Kamala Harris from the 2024 ticket. Contrary to what Clyburn wants his words to accomplish by speaking out this week, they only continue to show that Biden is not the leader of his party.

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