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[jomiddlemarch]

Thank you, Georgia!

(I wish some of the 700+ voters I sent postcards to could somehow know I am clapping for them right now!)

[ridenwithbiden]

#REPUBLICON FORMULA: Make Things Worse

For #Americans Then Blame It On #Democrats

"On Thursday evening, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia tweeted: “Yes they can control the weather. It’s ridiculous for anyone to lie and say it can’t be done.”

This is wholly unsurprising for Greene, the right-wing firebrand and conspiracymonger who once mused about the possibility of Jews controlling space lasers for the purpose of starting wildfires. The more surprising aspect is that it reflects the approach the Republican Party is taking generally to Hurricane Helene: rather than doing its job and offering concrete aid to people suffering from the devastation, GOP lawmakers are devolving into conspiracy theories and, like everything else, fearmongering about undocumented immigrants.

As Inside Washington discussed on Thursday, some Republicans such as Senator Rick Scott of Florida have worked in tandem with President Joe Biden in response to Helene. Indeed, even Senator Lindsey Graham put his beef with Biden on pause and greeted his former friend this week.

Similarly, a bipartisan coterie of Senators sent a letter to Senate leaders Chuck Schumer and Mitch McConnell and the leaders of the Senate Appropriations Committee calling for a supplemental package for Helene relief. That group included Scott and his Florida colleague Marco Rubio; Graham and his fellow South Carolinian Tim Scott; Senator Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee; Democratic Senators Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock; and Democratic Senators Tim Kaine and Mark Warner of Virginia.

Blackburn and Scott are up for re-election and know they can leave nothing up to chance. And despite his conservatism, Tillis has also focused on getting results.

But these Republicans are in the minority. Rather, earlier this week during a speech at the New York Stock Exchange, House Speaker Mike Johnson all but said Congress would not act.

“Congress has previously provided FEMA with the funds it needs to respond, so we will make sure that those resources are appropriately allocated,” he said. In other words: don’t expect anything extra, even if you need it.

Biden responded to the Speaker’s sentiments with a clear message: “We can't wait ... People need help now.” The president also correctly stressed that much of the money in past disaster relief bills has gone to more Republican-leaning areas than Democratic-leaning areas. In other words, he wasn’t asking for money for “his” voters. He was simply thinking of the suffering of Americans.

But the fact the areas most affected by Helene are fairly Republican-leaning might be the thing that delays the aid. Johnson is trying to defend his slim Republican majority and that includes endangered incumbents in places like California, New York and New Jersey, about as far away from the storm damage as one could imagine. Many of the areas hit by Helene already lean Republican, and because of gerrymandering, don’t run the risk of losing even if Congress botches the response."

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[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

<3 FANTASTIC NEWS <3

This gives me hope we’re another year closer to the day when America will finally be completely free of the Republican infestation in its politics

[qqueenofhades]

What’s the outlook for Georgia’s runoff?

With almost everything in (99%+), Warnock is leading by around 17,500 votes. This is more than Biden won Georgia by (the infamous 11,780) though smaller than his margin last time, which iirc was around 30,000. This race is officially going to a runoff that will happen in early December, rather than early January, as part of the omnibus voter suppression bills package that freshly re-elected (ugh) Gov. Brian Kemp signed last year.

The big question is whether the 81k idiots who voted for the Libertarian will back Walker, split or otherwise withhold their vote (unfortunately, they're almost surely too white and too racist to back Warnock, a Black Democrat, in large numbers), sit this one out, or otherwise play a significant role in a narrow race. Also thanks to Kemp and company, voters who turn 18 between now and December 6 won't be eligible to vote, so it will be a matter of who can once more turn out the votes they got in this election. If Senate control is at stake, both parties will once more spend heavily and do everything to drag their guy over the line (DEPLOY THE OBAMAMOBILE, DEMOCRATS. NOW). And the Democrats DID win the Georgia runoffs last time, Walker significantly underperformed compared to Kemp, and yes, got far too many votes for being barely able to put two words together and being great at procuring abortions for his mistresses, but... yeah.

Anyway, if Democratic voter enthusiasm can be maintained, and the Libertarians don't play a major spoiler role, I would say this is slight Warnock. But if it comes down to Georgia AGAIN, you can bet that the Republicans will be playing every dirty trick in the book and will have Kemp to help them. He's not an election denier (Raffensperger, Trump's least favorite Republican, also won re-election) but he is no friend to the Democrats or anything else.

On that note:

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

In November, millions of voters in red, blue and purple states voted on the future of our health care directly on the ballot. And Senator Warnock ran his re-election campaign and run-off on health care. Health care, and Warnock, won decisively.

Voters decided to expand Medicaid in South Dakota, meaning more than 40,000 low-income South Dakotans will finally have the health care they should have had years ago. More than 17 million Americans have gained health coverage as a result of Medicaid expansion, part of the Affordable Care Act that became optional as a result of a 2012 Supreme Court decision. Every time expansion of health care through Medicaid is on the ballot, health care wins.

In Arizona, the voters overwhelmingly approved Proposition 209, the Predatory Debt Collection Act, with a whopping 72% approval. This measure will protect Arizonans from predatory debt collection, including families suffering from medical debt.

Voters in states as varied as Michigan, Vermont, California, Kentucky and Montana supported abortion rights. In Michigan, Vermont and California, voters approved ballot measure enshrining abortion rights into their state constitutions. In Kentucky and Montana, voters rejected initiatives to restrict access to reproductive health care.

And in Oregon, Measure 111 passed. Voters there made Oregon the first state in the nation to guarantee affordable health care as a constitutional right. Now the state legislature needs to deliver on it, perhaps by moving forward a state-based public health insurance option as Colorado, Nevada and Washington have done so far.

Senator Warnock just won re-election in Georgia as a champion for lower drug prices, as did candidates across the country last month such as Representative Susan Wild in Pennsylvania.

Health care was on the ballot across the country, and the results are clear: Americans want affordable, accessible health care.

This issue is personal for me, because I've been on the front lines fighting for my health care and for the health care of 135 million Americans with pre-existing conditions like me. I was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer in 2017. The day after my first chemotherapy treatment, Republicans in the U.S. House voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act – the insurance paying for the treatments I needed to survive. But health care voters fought to defend the Affordable Care Act from a Congress and President determined to repeal it. We won.

And in the past couple years, health care voters have finally seen progress from Congress: with the American Rescue Plan making health insurance more affordable than ever, and the Inflation Reduction Act lowering prescription drug costs for seniors and allowing Medicare to negotiate drug prices at last. Yet already those gains are under attack.

Whether voting to expand health insurance through Medicaid, protect families from medical debt, preserve the right to reproductive freedom, or guarantee health care as a human right, Americans showed up and made their priorities known. Health care is a winning issue, no matter the state or political party of the voter.

Voters in South Dakota and elsewhere also demonstrated that state legislatures are blocking overwhelmingly popular legislation. It's time for Representatives in the remaining eleven hold-out states including Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Wisconsin, and Wyoming, to do their jobs. They must represent the interests of their constituents by finally expanding Medicaid so low income Americans in their states can get health care too.

It's also time for Congress to get on board and work to expand lower drug prices to all, instead of threatening to take away what gains on affordable prescription drugs we made through the Inflation Reduction Act.

And once again, we are reminded that the majority of Americans support affordable, legal and accessible abortion access. Abortion is health care. We must continue to advocate for reproductive freedom and show our elected officials that their restrictions on our bodies are unwarranted and unwelcome.

Our fight for affordable, accessible health care continues. There's so much more to do, from tackling prescription drug costs for the rest of us not on Medicare, to ensuring lower health insurance costs to ensure everyone can get access to care.

Voters want health care. Listen up, elected officials.

[sunbeamsandmoonrays]

✅ SENATE

🟩 CONGRESS

🟩 RE-ELECT WARNOCK

[ms-cellanies]

POLITICAL JUNKIE HERE:  I’m watching MSNBC’s election night coverage of Senator Warnock vs Herschel Walker.  Even though it’s way too early to call the election I can’t help but be glued to my television as Steve Kornacki & the MSNBC hosts discuss this very important final 2022 election.

[pdamerica]

We Must All Do What We Can to Re-Elect Reverend Raphael Warnock to the U.S. Senate in the runoff election in Georgia on December 6th

[drst]

Y'all, we still need to get Warnock re-elected in Georgia. A 51-49 majority in the Senate means they can confirm judges much faster than the current pace. Think of all the Federalist society nutjobs McConnell shoved into the federal judiciary (he held seats open while Obama was president so they could stuff their extremist loons into open seats) like the dipshit who interfered with the investigation of the stolen classified material or the asshole who just tried to declare student loan forgiveness illegal. Biden has a chance to fill even more positions and counter all those people if we get 51 Senators.

Also a Democratic Senate means even if the GOP takes the House, their inevitable attempts to impeach Biden go nowhere.

Also poor Warnock has had to run 4 elections in 2 years. The man needs to rest.

The runoff is December 6th.

[prudencepaccard]

Welp, Georgia senate vote went to Warnock & 45's fucking company seems to be getting the book thrown at it. Rando's tentatively considering re-exploring optimism after a drought that really didn't break for the past 2.3-ish years.

yeah it would have been really bad if Walker had won

the election was painful but when all was said and done you we were spared the dude actually winning right

[tomorrowusa]

It’s more than just a number. 51 Democratic seats in the US Senate would be disproportionately better than 50 seats.

David Nir describes why we need to help re-elect Sen. Raphael Warnock in the Georgia US Senate runoff...

A Warnock win sidelines Manchin and Sinema, but that's not the only reason to bust ass for him

Having 51 seats is a million times better than 50. First off, a larger majority reduces the influence that Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema have over the Democratic caucus. That alone is a showstopper. But it also means that Democrats would have more flexibility in the event of any absences—a real concern, given the age of many senators. On top of that, Kamala Harris would no longer have to be on standby to break ties.

Judicial nominations would move much faster. Under the deal reached between Chuck Schumer and Mitch McConnell last year—which McConnell dragged his feet on agreeing to—both parties were given equal numbers of seats on Senate committees. As a result, committee votes can end in ties. Most crucially, this has allowed Republicans on the Judiciary Committee to slow down judicial nominations because moving a tied nomination to the Senate floor requires the entire Senate to vote on a so-called “discharge motion.” With 51 seats, however, Democrats would have a majority on every committee. They’d be able to skip the discharge step, meaning Joe Biden’s nominees can receive confirmation votes before the full Senate much more rapidly.

Raphael Warnock is an amazing senator. The fact that Warnock was able to turn Georgia blue and, along with Jon Ossoff, secure the most unlikely of majorities for us in the 2021 runoffs is a testament to his remarkable connection with Georgia voters. In office, Warnock’s priorities have always been in the right place. It would be easy for a freshman senator in a swing state to want to “distance” himself from his party, but Warnock has been with us on everything. He’s also been Democrats’ foremost leader in the fight to cap the price of insulin.

Black representation matters, period. Warnock is one of just two Black Democrats in the Senate, but this is about so much more. Do Democrats really want to tell Black Americans—the party’s most loyal constituency—that we didn’t give it our all to re-elect Warnock? And it’s not simply a matter of electing a Black candidate, as Republicans reductively want to believe, but about electing the candidate who’s the choice of Black voters. That choice couldn’t be clearer: According to exit polls, 90% of Black Georgians cast ballots for Warnock.

Herschel Walker is unfit to serve in the Senate. Walker is a dangerous serial liar who has been accused of abusive, violent behavior by those closest to him. He belongs nowhere near Congress.

The 2024 Senate map is very tough for Democrats. We need to pad our majority right now because in two years, we’re going to be defending 23 seats while Republicans will only have to protect 10. What’s more, our list includes three red states—Montana, Ohio, and West Virginia—and 10 more potential swing states. To ensure our party’s long-term prospects, we’ve got to focus on the present.

With just 50 Democrats, we’re never more than one bad heart attack or car crash from losing the Senate majority; there are a number of Democratic senators from states with GOP governors.

Also, this is the first Senate election since Trump’s announcement that he’s running in 2024. Here’s a chance to deliver a high profile defeat to his handpicked stooge Herschel Walker.

With the House of Representatives about to come under narrow GOP control, it’s vital to shore up the Democratic majority in the Senate.

You don’t have to live in Georgia to help Raphael Warnock defeat Trump’s  puppet Herschel Walker...

Runoff - Warnock for Georgia

[antoschauniverse]

https://at.tumblr.com/antoschauniverse/your-anons-seem-obsessed-with-david-if-him-living/kj0wzf7r84t7

You misunderstood me I never said the younger ones involved with these celebs need to worry about what’s going on in the world. And I have no idea what they do personally none of us do.

The anon could use her energy she focuses on David to help get people elected to office who want to codify Roe v Wade and ensure LGBTQ rights are protected and the John Lewis Voting Rights Act get passed. I volunteer and give to try to make these things happen. Politics effects us all and I’m so happy Senator Warnock was re-elected. Anon redirect your energy from celebs personal lives and focus on helping others. Just saying.

I cross paths with rich people and see the almost slavish worship of kept woman and gigolos in front of their lovers. There is nothing there but a slavish desire to please their masters and preserve their youth. Despite the luxury clothes that they kept woman and gigolos wear to meetings, it's a pathetic sight if you look closely. Kept women and gigolos are sure that they have received a "lucky ticket" and they are not interested in anything else. The main thing is to keep this "lucky ticket" in your hands or in another "place". Problems in the world? What do these problems have to do with them? A rich old man or a rich woman pays for the lives of their kept women, and you say that they should be interested in some problems in the world that do not concern them. Crazy fans of any celebrity will protect their idols, whatever they do. So telling such fans to redirect their efforts to something else is useless.

[ausetkmt]

ATLANTA — Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock has built up an advantage in Georgia’s record-breaking early vote, putting Republican Herschel Walker in a position where he’ll need to deliver big on Election Day to win in Tuesday’s Senate runoff.

Georgians have been bombarded with TV ads, radio messages, direct mail and ceaseless fundraising appeals in the closely watched Senate race. Many of them are ready for it to be over.

“It’s been very, very exhausting,” said Ana Gomez, a sophomore at Georgia Tech who attended Warnock's rally on campus Monday.

Over the long and grueling campaign, the two candidates have employed different strategies, with Warnock putting a premium on appeals to moderates and independents as Walker seeks to energize the Republican base in this former GOP stronghold.

On the airwaves, Warnock and his Democratic allies have outspent Republicans since the Nov. 8 general election.

But on the final day before the runoff, it was all about juicing turnout as each candidate held a packed schedule of events, focusing on areas where they have the strongest voter appeal.

Warnock hosted events in the Atlanta area with Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., as well as 25-year-old Rep.-elect Maxwell Frost, D-Fla., and the rapper Killer Mike, with an evening rally scheduled in the heart of the city.

Meanwhile, Walker held a series of rallies in the rural outskirts of the city, where he needs to run up the score to withstand the onslaught of Democratic votes in the Atlanta metropolitan area, and was set to close with an evening rally in suburban Cobb County.

“Everyone says: Gosh, why did Herschel get in this? What has this been like for me?” Walker’s wife, Julie Blanchard, said to a crowd on Monday. “And you know what? Our country’s worth it. It doesn’t matter what it’s like. It doesn’t matter if you get attacked.”

“He loves this country. He loves God. And he wants to fight for our country,” she said. “We don’t want to wake up like Venezuela.”

Warnock is entering the runoff from a position of strength. He leads among likely voters by 4 percentage points in a CNN poll published Friday, and by 5 points in a UMass Lowell poll out Monday.

An early vote that topped 1.85 million showed other positive signs for Warnock, with Democrats enjoying a 13-point edge — larger than the party’s 8-point lead in November’s early vote, according to TargetSmart’s model.

But Walker is widely expected to win more of the votes cast on Election Day. The question is whether he’ll win it by a wide enough margin to overcome his deficit heading into Tuesday.

Robert Trim, a Cobb County Republican who ran unsuccessfully for a state house seat last month, said he’ll vote for Walker on Tuesday, because a 50th GOP seat is “critically important” for committee power and denying Democrats unilateral subpoena authority.

But Trim conceded he’s pessimistic about Walker’s chances, comparing his run to former Republican Sen. David Perdue's failed runoff bid in 2020, when he lost to Ossoff.

“I don’t feel very confident,” Trim said in an interview. “I never have felt confident in where he’s positioned. So I’m probably less confident now than I was before.”

He said Democrats clinching Senate control “probably does sap some energy” because “most voters don’t understand” why an extra seat for the GOP minority changes the dynamics in Washington.

On TV, Walker is running an ad that shows him standing with Republican Gov. Brian Kemp, who handily won his re-election bid last month. Kemp is a foe of former President Donald Trump, whose early endorsement of Walker propelled him in the Senate race. But Trump, who became the first Republican to lose Georgia since 1992, has not campaigned for Walker in the runoff.

Walker “needs to win Election Day by double digits,” said Cody Hall, an adviser to Kemp, who said the Republican candidate will have to outperform his advantage from November's Election Day. “He’s gonna need to do better than that margin, which his team realizes.”

“Yes, the early voting looks good for Warnock,” Hall told NBC News. “But I would just caution everyone that base Republican voters in the last couple of cycles have liked turning out on Election Day. And I think that is going to benefit Herschel.”

Walker has struggled with independent voters, losing them by 11 points in the general election, according to NBC News exit polls.

He has sought to tie Warnock to President Joe Biden, who is unpopular in the state, and blame the two of them for rising costs and crime. On the campaign trail, Walker has leaned into cultural conservatism, blasting “wokeness” in Washington, the teaching of “critical race theory,” objecting to transgender athletes and inveighing against pronoun use in the military.

“Why are they bringing pronouns in our military? Pronouns? What the heck is a pronoun?” Walker told a crowd Sunday in Loganville. “I’m sick and tired of that pronoun stuff. Aren’t y’all sick and tired of that pronoun stuff? So why don’t we call this senator former senator? That’s his pronoun.”

Warnock has built his candidacy on a promise to work across the aisle with Republicans. Recently he has portrayed Walker as “woefully unfit” for the job, telling Georgians that he “doesn’t know what he’s talking about.”

On Monday, he told MSNBC's Joy Reid in Atlanta: “Given my opponent, this race is not even about Republican versus Democrat, red versus blue, right versus left. It’s right versus wrong, and I think people see that.”

The runoff election will be Warnock’s fifth time on the ballot in Georgia in about two years — one Democratic primary, two general elections and two runoffs. He won a special election in 2020 to capture the seat for two years, and the 2022 race will decide who holds it for the next six years.

“I started on this journey to the Senate about three years ago. And now there’s only one day left,” he said Monday at Georgia Tech. “But it all really comes down to this. We need you to show up. Are you ready to win this election?”

Walker also urged Georgians to cast their ballots on Tuesday, telling Sean Hannity on Fox News Monday night that his message to voters was: "If you don’t vote, you’re going to get more of Chuck Schumer and Joe Biden.”

While Biden has stayed away from Georgia, Warnock has received reinforcements from former President Barack Obama, who has visited Atlanta twice to rally voters for the state’s first Black senator. Frost, who was just elected and will be the first Gen Z member of Congress, rallied for him Monday.

“This isn’t a two-year term. This is six years of power — of a Black reverend organizer in the U.S. Senate for six years. So anyone who says it doesn’t matter is out of touch with the realities of what’s going on now,” Frost said in an interview. “It’s a numbers game in the United States Congress, and every number matters.”

[qqueenofhades]

WI was less than ONE PERCENT away from getting rid of Ron Johnson FUCK. I mean, it was a lot closer than anyone I knew thought it would be. Same with some of the house elections. At least our governor is still blue :/

I highlighted problems in the Wisconsin Senate race and the kind of campaign Mandela Barnes was running several weeks ago, so... disappointed, especially since Ron Johnson is so odious, but not entirely surprised. Yes, Evers did win re-election, and the massively gerrymandered Wisconsin state legislature failed to secure a Republican supermajority, so they won't be able to override his vetoes of their worst measures. Democrat Josh Kaul also won as AG, both of which means Republican ability to meddle in 2024 Wisconsin elections directly is greatly reduced.

But also like... I will NEVER understand the absolutely brain dead logic where you want to vote for members of each party to "balance each other out," and then complain about gridlock when nothing gets done since Republicans torpedo it. If you vote for someone, don't you WANT them to be able to do their job??? Instead of being like "I'll force you to do your job with both hands tied behind your back, SUCCESS!" So there were definitely some Evers/Johnson voters, just as there were clearly a lot of Kemp/Warnock voters in GA (which. Like. Why.) And I just do not understand it at all.

[mariacallous]

The 2022 midterm elections will have a huge impact on the 2024 presidential contest. Republican gains were much smaller than anticipated, and while they seem poised to assume control of the House with control of the Senate still hanging in the balance, there are some implications for 2024 that are not likely to change as the final votes are counted.

Here are four of them.

First, the impact on the Democratic contest. If Democrats had suffered a major reverse, the pressure on President Biden to stand down in favor of a fresh face would have been intense. Instead, the choice is now the president’s to make, and the midterm election results will probably resolve any doubts he may have had about running for reelection.

The impact on the Republican contest is even greater. With his landslide reelection victory, Florida’s Governor Ron DeSantis was the biggest story of the 2022 election. He won 57% of the Hispanic vote and even swept historically Democratic Miami-Dade county. His performance will persuade many Republicans that he would be their strongest presidential candidate in 2024, and it is hard to believe that he won’t throw his hat into the ring. As Brutus says in Julius Caesar, “There is a tide in the affairs of men, which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.” It is high tide for Ron DeSantis, and if he misses his moment, he may not get another as good.

Conversely, the 2022 elections have weakened Donald Trump’s hand. On the whole, his hand-picked candidates did not do well, and this could be the second straight election in which his intervention in Republican primaries has cost his party a Senate majority.[1] To be sure, J.D. Vance won the open Senate seat in deep Red Ohio, but he underperformed Republican governor Mike DeWine by a stunning 9 points. Mehmet Oz lost to John Fetterman in Pennsylvania, and Herschel Walker is trailing Raphael Warnock is Georgia. (Neither Georgia candidate received 50% of the vote, and the contest may well end up in a December runoff.) In Arizona, ground zero for MAGA Republicanism, Blake Masters is trailing incumbent senator Mark Kelly by 6 points with almost two-thirds of the vote counted, and Kari Lake is behind Katie Hobbs by 2 points in the governor’s race. (Neither race has been called, however, and these standings could change as the remaining votes are counted.)

This brings me to my final point: Democrats did well in the gubernatorial races that will shape how the 2024 presidential elections are administered. Democratic incumbents held on in Michigan and Wisconsin, and Josh Shapiro won a handsome victory in Pennsylvania. Yes, Republican incumbent Brian Kemp trounced Stacey Abrams in a rematch of their 2018 faceoff, but he has already shown that he can withstand pressure from Donald Trump to distort election results. This leaves Arizona, where a come-from-behind victory by Kari Lake could lead to a bitterly contested outcome in 2024 if the presidential vote narrowly tilts toward the Democratic candidate, as it did in 2020.

In sum, the midterm elections have set the stage for a titanic struggle between Trump and DeSantis for the Republican nomination and have made it more likely that the winner of this contest will face an incumbent Democratic president who has avoided a damaging challenge to his re-nomination.

[usa-journal]

Black Voters and Black Democrats Clash Over Joe Biden’s Candidacy

In a growing rift, Black voters and Black Democratic lawmakers are diverging over President Joe Biden's bid for re-election. As Biden faces mounting pressure to step down, members of the influential Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) are rallying behind him, even as a significant segment of his Black voter base expresses dissatisfaction.

Following a contentious debate performance on June 27, Biden's ability to challenge Republican nominee Donald Trump has come under scrutiny. Despite calls for Biden to withdraw, the President remains steadfast in his commitment to run. He has reportedly sought support from CBC members, expressing his reliance on their backing to navigate his faltering campaign.

During a recent call with CBC members, Biden is said to have urged for their continued support, emphasizing his need for their help. Although the specifics of the call remain private, sources revealed that Senators Laphonza Butler, Cory Booker, and Raphael Warnock were also involved in the discussion. Butler, in a statement to Newsweek, underscored her belief in the democratic process and the voters’ choice to nominate Biden.

Recent polls reflect a divided sentiment among Black voters. A New York Times/Siena College poll indicates that 47% of Black voters believe a new Democratic nominee is necessary, while 43% support Biden’s continued candidacy. Similarly, a CBS News/YouGov poll shows 42% of Black voters favor a different candidate, though 58% still support Biden.

In response to internal party debates, several Black Democrats have defended Biden. Representative Frederica Wilson criticized those advocating for Biden's departure, stressing the importance of unity and focusing on the upcoming election's stakes. Representative Joyce Beatty echoed this sentiment, arguing that disunity among Democrats undermines their collective goals.

Nevada Representative Steven Horsford, current CBC chair, reaffirmed Biden’s legitimacy as the Democratic nominee, citing the millions of voters who have endorsed him. Cedric Richmond, a former congressman and Biden campaign co-chair, added that abandoning Biden could alienate crucial voter segments and highlighted the absence of African American lawmakers calling for his resignation.

Despite Biden's continued support among Black voters, recent polls indicate a potential erosion of his lead in battleground states, where even minor shifts could impact the election outcome. Should Biden step aside, Vice President Kamala Harris is seen as the likely successor, with some polls suggesting she might perform better against Trump.

Representative Jim Clyburn, a pivotal figure in Biden’s 2020 nomination, has voiced support for Biden but also hinted at supporting Harris if Biden were to withdraw. Clyburn even proposed a "mini-primary" to address the transition if needed.

Political analyst Katherine Tate notes that the CBC is concerned about the implications of a potential Biden withdrawal, including the challenge of selecting a suitable replacement who can secure strong Black support. As Biden continues to assert his ability to defeat Trump, the debate within the Democratic Party remains unresolved.

Tate concludes that while Black lawmakers' endorsement of Biden might sway some concerned voters, the current situation reflects a deeper crisis within the party as it navigates the path to the 2024 election.