Poll: Majority of Liberal and Black Voters Want Biden to Remain as Nominee

The majority of liberal and black voters believe President Joe Biden (D) should not step aside and should continue running as the Democrat nominee for U.S. President in 2024.

That’s according to a CBS News poll of U.S. voters conducted by YouGov.

“After the debate, some Democratic officials reportedly said Joe Biden should step aside as the Democratic Party’s nominee for president in 2024,” said the question asked in the YouGov poll, conducted for CBS News. “Do you think Joe Biden should step aside as the nominee and give another Democrat a chance to run, or should Biden continue running as the nominee?”

Among liberals, only 48% said Biden should step aside, while a majority (52%) said he should continue running.

An even stronger majority of Black voters, 59%, said Biden should continue running as the Democrat presidential nominee.

While a majority of voters overall (56%) said Biden should step aside, it was Democrat voters, fueled largely by Black voters, that voted for the Biden-Harris ticket during this year’s Democrat U.S. Presidential primaries.

With Democrat Party insiders reportedly plotting to dump Biden from the ticket, this poll shows those insiders risk alienating the will of the majority of their voting base.

Noted tech entrepreneur and investor David Sacks said the effort to oust Biden puts the Dems in “blackmail territory”:

Powerful Democrats asked Biden to step aside. He said no. They demanded more insistently. He said no. They cut off donations. He said no. Now we’re in blackmail territory.

— David Sacks (@DavidSacks) July 20, 2024

And former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D) said that the effort to oust Biden, reportedly led by former President Barack Obama (D), is ‘classic Chicago Democrat machine politics.”

I’ve known Obama since 1995. We both come out of Chicago politics. I know how it works. He’s behind the campaign to dump 15 million Dem primary voters & replace Biden with his choice. Classic Chicago Democrat machine politics. Selection over election. The bosses over the people. pic.twitter.com/5ibvaX9IzP

— Rod Blagojevich (@realBlagojevich) July 21, 2024