Black Vote puts Vice President Joe Biden on the Verge of the Presidency

By Roman Lewis 

Pundits and prognosticators, for months, waxed ominously about how Joe Biden would never out-perform Hillary Clinton with black voters, claiming he could not win the Whitehouse without that base firmly in hand. 

And, to an extent, they were right. President Donald Trump won more of the black vote in 2020 than in 2016, in every swing state, in some cases gaining 1 to 2 percentage points. 

But while Biden did not perform as well with black voters as Clinton did in 2016, the former Vice President, buoyed by much stronger GOTV efforts in Georgia and Philadelphia, secured more black votes overall. 

Specifically,  as we are learning now, Biden and the Democratic Party got greater turnout among black voters in suburban areas surrounding metropolitan Atlanta and Philadelphia, putting Biden on the verge of the Whitehouse. 

As Jim Galloway, a veteran political columnist for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, put it, Biden is “flirting with history ... in a state that was ruby red only a few years ago.”

Galloway will join me this Saturday, on AM 970 The Answer, to discuss the closely-contested race in the Peach State on Roman Lewis Live. 

This is a developing story. More to come.