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TexasTowelie

(112,167 posts)
Sat Oct 24, 2020, 03:28 AM Oct 2020

Biden needs Black voters to turn out better than '16, in Florida and across nation

QUINCY, FL – From rural churches to downtown streets, Democrat Joe Biden’s campaign is pushing hard to turn out one of his strongest but most uncertain bases of support - Black Floridians.

Four years after Hillary Clinton was stung by diminished backing from Black voters, Biden is relying on this 13% of the Florida electorate to help him carry a state most analysts say President Trump must win to have any chance for a second term.

Former President Obama’s visit Saturday to Miami is among the most eye-catching events designed to rally black voters to Biden, who needs to regain strong minority turnout levels seen in the 2008 and 2012 elections to carry the biggest presidential toss-up state.

In rural Gadsden County, Florida’s only county with a majority Black population, a steady stream of voters stopped to cast their ballots at the elections supervisor’s office in downtown Quincy during the first week of early voting.

Read more: https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/politics/state/2020/10/23/many-black-voters-say-vote-biden-really-vote-against-trump/3684961001/

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Biden needs Black voters to turn out better than '16, in Florida and across nation (Original Post) TexasTowelie Oct 2020 OP
blacks NEED blacks to turn out for Biden, otherwise whats the point of BLM?? beachbumbob Oct 2020 #1
This is very disappointing- what is the point of BLM without voting kansasobama Oct 2020 #2
No answer, falls in with why would any woman. beachbumbob Oct 2020 #3
Souls to the Polls tomorrow and next Sunday Awsi Dooger Oct 2020 #4

kansasobama

(609 posts)
2. This is very disappointing- what is the point of BLM without voting
Sat Oct 24, 2020, 12:56 PM
Oct 2020

It is true many black men are not turning out for us. I feel disillusioned. So, what was I fighting for? Was BLM just for protests not voting? C'mon, do not do this. I see reports that say 10-15% black men are for Trump. Why?

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