Name: Biden's re-election bid faces lukewarm Black voters | REUTERS
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presidential election, black voters in Georgia helped Democratic candidate Joe Biden flip the longtime Republican stronghold for the first time in 18 years.

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And with another presidential election looming in November, black voters here will again be key to whether Biden can hold the White House.

And some black voters tell Reuters they're feeling disillusioned by rising costs of living and little progress on racial justice priorities.

Wanda Moseley is the deputy policy director of the Black Voters Matter Fund.

Black voters in this country historically are the largest and most loyal voting bloc for the Democratic Party.

And so the Democratic Party needs to understand and respect that.

You know, one thing that I know that is extremely frustrating for a lot of folks in particular in Georgia is that the administration did not offer any protection for voting rights in 2021 when Georgia delivered the much vaunted trifecta.

And so that was a huge misstep for the administration.

And yeah, folks are still frustrated by that.

African Americans remain overwhelmingly Democratic.

Well, I think in 2024, the Black vote is going to be pretty powerful to move the Biden over the edge again.

Carl Booker is the owner of off the Hook Barbershop in Atlanta.

The reason why I'm sticking with Biden, I just believe that he more care about people in general.

But a Pew Research poll in January found black Americans are divided over Biden's performance in office.

About 49% of black adults disapproved of it, while 48% approved.

While these numbers are higher than current national numbers, there are still cause for concern, not that black voters will vote Republican, but

that they might stay home on Election Day.

Renata Robinson is research director for the New Georgia Project.

We do not have a concern that voters won't know who to vote for.

Per our senior in the September poll, just under half of folks in September 2023 said that they would vote for Biden.

In this year's election, less than 10% said they would vote for Trump.

The issue is the percentage of folks who are undecided.

Opinion polls show the November 5 election shaping up to be a close match between Biden and Trump, making turnout among black Americans key.

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