Black men in Georgia were crucial to Biden’s 2020 victory. Can he keep the momentum in 2024?

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****** men in Georgia were crucial to Biden’s 2020 victory. Can he keep the momentum in 2024?

James Butler, a ******, 42-year-old Atlanta-based Democrat, is planning on casting his ballot for President BIden in November —  but he isn’t so enthusiastic this time around. 

“I guess it’s the best we got,” he said about the 2024 election.

Butler’s not alone among ****** voters in Georgia in his lack of enthusiasm in voting for Mr. Biden for a second time. 

A CBS News poll in late February showed 76% of likely ****** voters said they backed his reelection bid, down from 87% who voted for him in 2020. In 2020, Georgia was one of Mr. Biden’s closest victories, with fewer than 12,000 voters making the difference — and ****** voters were a key part of Mr. Biden’s winning coalition there.

The Biden-Harris campaign appears to have taken notice. Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday kicked off a multistate tour in Atlanta, to talk about investments in ****** communities and opportunities for ********* families to build wealth under the Biden administration.

A member of the audience wearing a ‘****** Voters Still Matter’ t-shirt from Georgia NAACP as Georgia Democratic Senate candidate U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) speaks during a Get Out the Vote rally December 3, 2022 in Hephzibah, Georgia. 

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“We’re going to keep talking about the record and the work that is being done to advance the economic opportunity for young ****** men across this country,” said Michael Tyler, a campaign spokesperson.

Organizers with the New Georgia Project, a ****** voter advocacy group based in Atlanta, believe younger males have been particularly slow to return to Mr. Biden’s fold.

“Young ****** men are more likely to say that they will vote for Trump,” said Ranada Robinson, a researcher for the New Georgia Project. “But, what I am most concerned about this year is that about 30% was undecided at the time of our poll.”

Robinson says misinformation is playing a large role in the waning interest of some ****** men in Mr. Biden.

“Particularly online, there are some narratives that misplace the credit for some of the wins that we’ve seen in America,” she said. “There’s also some misplacement of blame. When you see certain Supreme Court decisions or some of the things that have long term impacts of past administrations, this administration is suffering the consequences of it.”

But other supporters of the president say they just aren’t excited about a 2020 rematch.

“I think my vote’s the same, but I’m less enthusiastic,” said Phillip Dunwood, 21, a student at Georgia State University. “It’s more like, ‘alright, let’s get it over with’.”

Meanwhile, Republicans are looking to peel ****** men off Mr. Biden’s base, but they don’t have the resources they had in previous cycles. The RNC’s ****** ********* Community Center in College Park, Georgia was one of many ********* outreach centers that opened ahead of the 2022 midterms that are now shuttered. 

“We can do a better job [at outreach],” said Azad Ahmadi, a member of the Georgia ****** *********** Council (GABRC).

In lieu of national infrastructure, the party is relying on local ancillary groups like the GABRC to make inroads with the ****** community. Darryl Wilson, another member, says the group is using mentorship as a way to court ****** men into considering voting for Republicans in November.

“We’ve done ****** ************* summits. We’ve done ‘barbershop-political forums.’ We bring government to the people in the local communities, wherever they can ask direct questions and get direct answers,” Wilson said.

The ****** ************* Federation (BCF), a network of ******** ********* GOP activists, rolled out its 2024 get out the vote policy plan in April titled “****** Men Matter.” The plan will see the group’s outreach organizers targeting ****** men in six battleground states – Georgia, North Carolina, Wisconsin, Michigan, Florida and Pennsylvania – through grassroots outreach and programming.

But Democrats say Republicans are still far away from proving their investment in ****** communities.

“To come around in an election ******* and suggest that they’re courting ****** voters, except to say ‘Democrats aren’t doing enough’ or to say ‘you should stay out of this because this election isn’t worth getting involved in and Trump was a little bit better for you are the National Party was a little bit better for you,’ I just don’t buy it,” said Anre Washington, a Georgia voter. “It’s not ever been in my voting lifetime, a good ****** effort on the part of the *********** Party.”

Taurean Small

Taurean Small is a 2024 campaign reporter for CBS News.

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