Timothy L. O'Brien, Columnist

Black Voters’ Loyalty to Biden in 2024 Isn’t Guaranteed

The Black community has voted overwhelmingly Democratic for decades, but the incumbent might not be able to shore up their support this time.

February 6, 2024 at 10:00 AM UTC

By Timothy L. O'Brien

Timothy L. O'Brien is senior executive editor of Bloomberg Opinion. A former editor and reporter for the New York Times, he is author of “TrumpNation: The Art of Being the Donald.”

Black voters could play a pivotal role in the 2024 election.
Photographer: Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg

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On our last episode, we discussed the central role Latino voters could play in the 2024 presidential election. The same, of course, is true of the Black community. Joe Biden secured a victory in the Democratic primaries in 2020 after Representative Jim Clyburn threw his support, and that of his Black constituents in South Carolina, behind the candidate. Biden went on to take the presidency away from Donald Trump, and the pair now seems headed for a rematch.