Biden confronts Gaza, 2024 election weak spots in Morehouse speech

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Biden confronts Gaza, 2024 election weak spots in Morehouse speech

U.S. President Joe Biden addresses Morehouse College graduates during a commencement ceremony in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S., May 19.

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President Joe Biden on Sunday addressed the war in Gaza and discussed his investments in ****** communities during a commencement speech at

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, part of a larger effort to reinvigorate the

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that helped elect him in 2020.

“We’re connecting ****** neighborhoods cut off by old highways and decades of disinvestment when no one cared about the community,” the president said at Morehouse, a historically ****** men’s college in Atlanta.

The president spotlighted several other policy victories to rally his audience, including his student loan relief program and a new $16 billion investment for historically ****** colleges and universities, or HBCUs.

Biden’s commencement address at Morehouse comes as recent

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has showed ****** voters, especially young ones, have weakening enthusiasm for the president.

Biden’s support among ****** voters so far is 7 percentage points lower than it was at the same ******* in 2020, according to an

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average of national polls since April 1. Meanwhile, former President Donald Trump’s support from ****** voters has increased by 9 percentage points. But Biden still has the majority of support among ****** voters, at 69% vs. Trump’s 18%.

While he still holds steady ground with older ****** voters, Biden’s weakness with young voters is spurred in part by the ongoing tensions over the *******-****** war, which have reached a fever pitch in recent weeks as college campuses have become hotbeds of protest.

“Your voices should be heard, and I promise you I hear them,” Biden said during the address. “What’s happening in Gaza and ******* is heartbreaking. … That’s why I’ve called for an immediate cease-*****.”

The roughly half-hour speech went basically uninterrupted by protests, though some students and faculty members expressed their support for Gaza during the ceremony. Biden’s remarks were even well-received by some students.

“I’m happy with his words that he said,” Morehouse graduating senior Sebastian Gordon told NBC News after the remarks. “I’m just gonna continue to watch to make sure his actions line up with that.”

The Morehouse speech is one prong of a multifront strategy to reach out to the ****** voter coalition and regain the momentum that propelled Biden to the White House in 2020, when 87% of ****** voters supported him, according to NBC News 

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On Saturday, before the commencement address, Biden held a campaign event with Georgia voters and was set to meet with small-business owners in Detroit later Sunday, after which he was slated to deliver remarks to the NAACP, according to a campaign memo obtained by

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The campaign events come alongside an administration-wide effort to make the case for why Biden has been an effective president for ****** communities.

Vice President Kamala Harris has spent years reaching out to ****** voters over the course of Biden’s first term. Most recently, she has been on a weeks-long “

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,” spotlighting the administration’s attempts to lower costs and advance economic freedom for underserved groups, especially ****** communities.

That pitch is not just coming from the top of the ticket.

For example, Treasury Undersecretary Wally Adeyemo who typically makes international trips to discuss G7-level economic security issues, has been making the rounds in U.S. battleground states to highlight Biden’s economic agenda.

Adeyemo is scheduled to tour Nevada, a key voting bloc, with the state’s Democratic Rep. Steven Horsford on Monday to tout Biden’s progress on lowering energy and child care costs.

That comes after his trip to Wisconsin last Thursday with Harris’ Economic Opportunity Tour.

“The number of ****** small businesses have doubled during the Biden-Harris administration,” Adeyemo said at the event Thursday. “And when ****** Americans do well, everyone does well.”

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