President Biden is losing support from young Black voters who helped spur his 2020 victory primarily because of his administration's support for Israel in the war in Gaza, a new report says.
CNN's Rene Marsh spoke with four Black voters in Georgia who were registered Democrats and supported Biden in the last election but said they wouldn't be voting for him — or former President Trump — this November, because of their strong disagreement over the U.S. approach to the war.
Three of the voters said they would be choosing an independent or third-party candidate this time. Another voter admitted that if the election were held tomorrow, she wouldn't vote at all.
Without a cease-fire on the table, Biden wouldn't be getting their vote, they all seemed to agree.
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"If there is no substantive policy change, when it comes to the genocide in Gaza, then there's not really a discussion for me," one young man in the group said.
"I think what Biden has done in aiding and abetting genocide is just something I cannot stand for," another woman added.
Marsh asked the group if they were worried that voting for a third-party candidate could help Trump win the election.
"Would you not say that also the people who are not voting for one of the two people, who are the likely people to really be in this race, have a role to play in giving the race to Donald Trump? In a state like Georgia where it's going to be razor-thin?" she pleaded.
The voters recognized the impact their choice could make on the race, saying they were sending a message to the Democratic Party.
"I'll do you one better, actually. I think that just means that the Democrats should listen," he responded as the others agreed. "We're holding their election in the palm of our hands and they're not listening."
Biden won Georgia by a little less than 12,000 votes in 2020, becoming the first Democratic White House hopeful to do so since 1992. Losing even a small slice of Black voters in the state could tip the swing state back into Trump's column.
"We're tired of hearing him say these things, these empty promises," a female voter remarked. "We have no trust in Joe Biden."
Two of the voters also remarked that they were struggling in the current economy. One voter called for a rise in the minimum wage, while two others called for his administration to stop sending aid to Israel, and another reiterated the need for a cease-fire.
"If he doesn't get elected, that's his fault," one young man said. "That's not our fault."
"If enough people vote third-party, we can win," one of the female voters said, optimistically.
A Fox News poll from February found Trump leads Biden in the Peach State. Just over half of voters, 51%, say they would support Trump in a hypothetical head-to-head rematch, while 43% say they’d go for Biden. That puts Trump ahead by 8 points, outside the poll’s margin of sampling error.
Biden's support among Black voters has dropped roughly 30 points since 2020, according to a USA Today/Suffolk University poll released in January. The poll found Biden's support among Black voters fell to 63%, down from the 92% that Pew Research Center data shows he won in the 2020 presidential election.
Fox News' Anders Hagstrom and Victoria Balara contributed to this report.
