RFK Jr Hosts Roundtable As Biden Loses Support

Impartial Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks throughout a marketing campaign rally at Legends Occasion Middle on December 20, 2023, in Phoenix, Arizona. | Supply: Rebecca Noble / Getty

Likely seizing on experiences that President Joe Biden has been shedding assist amongst Black voters, the Democratic Occasion’s most loyal base, unbiased presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s marketing campaign scheduled a roundtable dialogue with Black ladies for this weekend.

Particularly, Kennedy’s occasion slated for Saturday night time in Atlanta was publicized to the media as one that may talk about “urgent points dealing with Black America,” together with “the Black maternal well being disaster, media censorship, gender in sports activities, gun violence, and the development of Black-owned companies.”

Kennedy is anticipated to interact in dialogue with Angela Stanton King, political spokesperson and founding father of non-profit Auntie Angie’s Home; WNBA star Angel McCoughtry; Alexia Adams, a former basketball participant; influencer Tatiana Davenport; and media persona Shay McCray; Atlanta-based journalist and best-selling writer Christal Jordan is ready to average the dialogue, in keeping with a media advisory despatched to NewsOne.

The roundtable dialogue appears to be amongst presidential candidates’ newest courting of Black voters, the coveted voting bloc that’s credited for serving to to resolve the 2020 election in battleground states like Georgia, Michigan and Pennsylvania.

Doubtless not coincidentally, Kennedy’s occasion comes weeks after polling discovered that Black voters are more and more supporting third-party candidates in an effort to seek out options to Biden and Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee.

Twenty % of Black voters anticipate to solid their ballots on Election Day for neither Biden nor Trump, in keeping with a ballot launched earlier this month. The unusually excessive variety of third-party candidates this yr may spell doom for Biden’s reelection efforts.

The findings within the USA Immediately/Suffolk College Ballot provides a slight edge to Trump within the basic election.

In the meantime, Kennedy – the top-polling third-party candidate – is reportedly having fun with assist amongst Black voters in battleground states at an unprecedented degree.

MSNBC reported that 28% of Black voters in battleground states plan to vote for Kennedy. Whereas 50% of those self same voters assist Biden, 13% are anticipated to vote for Trump, latest polling reveals.

That’s doubtless not less than partially as a result of Black voters in swing states – together with some that helped safe Biden’s victory in 2020 – have been supporting Trump at ranges beforehand “unseen” by a Republican candidate, a earlier ballot discovered.

Of these states – Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin – only one reveals Biden beating Trump by a slim margin.

On a extra granular degree, there are extra Black voters from these states – 22% of them – supporting a Republican presidential candidate than ever beforehand recorded, the New York Instances reported.

Whereas polling is much from definitive, it could possibly point out traits like Black voters’ unprecedented assist for a third-party candidate this yr.

“This can be a fairly distinctive historic second when greater than 60% of the inhabitants says they’re open to voting for a third-party or unbiased candidate,” Tony Lyons, Kennedy’s guide writer and the co-founder of a brilliant PAC for the candidate, advised NBC Information.

Past Black voters, an NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist nationwide ballot launched in October discovered that Trump would doubtless emerge victorious in November when factoring in Kennedy’s unbiased candidacy and the 16% of assist he was predicted to get. With out Kennedy’s candidacy, the ballot confirmed Biden would beat Trump.

Notably, Kennedy final summer time was accused of antisemitism when he put forth conspiracy theories together with one speculating that COVID-19 may need been engineered to focus on everybody besides Jewish and Chinese language individuals. Constructing on that very same unlucky momentum, Kennedy particularly pointed to low COVID-19 demise charges in Black nations like Haiti and Nigeria as purported proof to assist his unfounded concept.