As polls show Biden struggling with Black voters - specifically, younger Black voters - Clyburn has a new message for his generation: It's time for Black elders to have a chat with the younger branches of the family.
Clyburn, now the Biden campaign's 2024 co-chair, believes that younger Black voters have fallen prey to "Misinformation and disinformation," citing the increasing credulity with which voters are taking Donald Trump's claims that he's done more for Black people than anyone - with the "Possible exception" of Abraham Lincoln.
Clyburn's stern warning wasn't a criticism of Black voters of any generation.
An uneven economic recovery has also presented a political challenge to the president with Black voters, as well as Democratic failures to enact a new voting rights law or new policing reforms.
Clyburn has long disputed that Black voter support for Biden is precarious and argued that the media is "Failing the American people" by "Repeating" perceptions that Biden is losing steam with Black voters.
There are, of course, plenty of Black voters who won't take kindly to Clyburn's warnings.
"To try and scare Black voters, particularly young Black voters, into voting for Biden is desperate. He is really desperate," she said.
https://www.notus.org/biden-2024/jim-clyburn-time-to-talk-younger-black-generation
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