Justin Pearson in the Oval Office on Monday. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris meet with Tennessee state Reps. Keeping the activist class engaged and energized is key, but there’s also a hard truth being spoken amongst grassroots organizers. They also hope the Biden administration can craft a coherent campaign message, one that showcases his achievements but also serves as a clarion call for the battles ahead that still require a united front of elected officials and activists to achieve.
Those, they say, are achievements Biden should be touting. Many Democratic strategists and activists give the Biden administration high marks for stabilizing the economy following the pandemic shutdowns, passing bipartisan infrastructure legislation and nominating Ketanji Brown Jackson as the first Black woman to the Supreme Court. We’re used to being in fights we know we can’t win because we don’t have the votes … but we want people to fight for us.” “Sometimes all Black folks want to see is, ‘We want to see you fight,’” Albright says. | Patrick Semansky/AP PhotoĪlbright says the relaunch video was strong and that he was glad to see Biden lean so heavily into voting rights, an issue he says he is key for Black voters - even though Democrats were unsuccessful in enacting federal protections when the party held a governing trifecta. President Joe Biden speaks about his economic agenda at International Union of Operating Engineers Local 77’s training facility in Accokeek, Md., on April 19, 2023. “It’s obviously going to have to be surrogates to do the energizing part, but he’s got some achievements, including some that influence Black folks directly that he can craft a message around.” “It’s not going to be him energizing the base,” Cliff Albright, executive director of Black Voters Matter Fund, tells The Recast with a hint of a chuckle. Many don’t view Biden himself as a galvanizing force in 2024. Many see themselves as loyal foot soldiers in the fight against culture war battles being waged in conservative legislatures which are pushing for stricter laws targeting abortion and voting. And the reality for Biden is many activists - natural surrogates to bolster his message - are growing weary.
There’s a perceived dearth of enthusiasm for his campaign, with many Democratic activists resigned to the fact Biden is their best chance to stop Republicans from reclaiming the presidency. This campaign, though, will be far different than the socially distanced one he successfully navigated in 2020 with few public appearances during the height of the pandemic. President Joe Biden speaks about abortion access during a Democratic National Committee event in October 2022.
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