President Joe Biden delivered a sermon on Sunday at Martin Luther King Jr.’s historic Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, testing out themes he’ll need to…
Georgia, which helped put Biden in the White House in 2020, remains a key battleground state. Biden was invited to speak by the church’s senior pastor, Senator Raphael Warnock, who was re-elected in November after keeping the president and his moribund approval rating at arm’s length during the campaign.Sign up to receive daily headline news from Ottawa Citizen, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.
A razor-thin margin of victory in Georgia in 2020 — fueled by support from Black voters — helped Biden defeat former President Donald Trump, becoming the first Democratic presidential candidate to win the state in nearly three decades. Black people account for nearly half of the 1.9 million increase in Georgia’s eligible voter population between 2000 and 2019, according to a Pew Research Center analysis.
Biden’s approval ratings fell to 43% last year among Black voters, according to an October Morning Consult poll, only a slightly higher average than for voters overall. “The president has done and will continue to do all that he can do in his executive powers, but there’s only so much that he can do,” she told reporters Friday. “We need Congress to act.”
“The Biden folks obviously think that Black voters continue to provide a strong base for the president,” said Brian Robinson, a Republican consultant in Atlanta.Article content
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