Tamara Keith, National Public Radio:
surely.
I was particularly focused on Black voters, who the Biden team has very frankly acknowledged are a group of voters that they have a problem with, or at least a very big challenge to address, so they're trying to have those conversations early on.
I went with some North Carolina Democratic Party leaders to predominantly black areas of eastern North Carolina, and I went to barber shops, and the message actually — we ended up getting to three barber shops, and the message was very clear: their lives are not getting better.
Either way, this quote was repeated many times: “I always vote Democrat. I voted for Joe Biden. My life has not changed for the better.”
And only one voter I met said he was voting for Trump for that reason, because he's also a small business owner and feels the former president was better for small business owners. Everyone else was like, Oh, I don't like Biden. I don't feel like my life is better. There's just frustration that things haven't really changed and a desire for better things.
But that's the challenge facing the Biden campaign: These are people who should be voting for Biden, who in theory should be enthusiastic, but who clearly aren't.
