There was shock on CNN at how former President Donald Trump is faring in polling amongst Black voters forward of the 2024 presidential election.
On Monday, the community’s senior political knowledge reporter Harry Enten stated he was “speechless” at presumptive GOP presidential nominee Trump’s surge from round 7% assist at this level in 2020 to 21% now — in comparison with President Joe Biden’s plummet from 86% to 70% in the identical interval.
“I maintain on the lookout for indicators that that is going to return to regular and I don’t see it but within the polling of something,” Enten instructed anchor John Berman. “We’re careening in the direction of a historic efficiency for Republican presidential candidate, the likes of which we’ve not seen in six many years.”
Trump seems to have made specific inroads with youthful Black voters, he instructed. “Have a look at Black voters underneath the age of fifty. Holy cow people! Holy cow!”
Assist for Biden has “careened down” from 80 factors to 37 factors, Enten detailed. “That lead has dropped by greater than half. I’ve simply by no means seen something like this. I’m like speechless since you all the time take a look at historical past and also you go, ‘Okay, it is a historic second.’”
Enten stated it may level to “a historic second proper now the place Black voters underneath the age of fifty, which have traditionally been such a giant a part of the Democratic coalition, are leaving in droves.”
Watch Enten’s evaluation right here: