Biden Looks to Black, Latino Leaders to Stem Party Uprising
- Black lawmakers rally around Biden, evoking his 2020 rebound
- Other Democrats harbor deep concerns about Biden’s viability
Joe Biden is turning to Black, Hispanic and progressive leaders to curb an intraparty uprising over his fitness for office, an unexpected lifeline for a president whose standing among voters in those groups has diminished.
Biden this week has drawn battle lines in the Democratic Party’s struggle over whether he should remain its presidential nominee. Some of his staunchest defenders have been lawmakers of color, bolstering Biden’s case that he has rank-and-file support while he chastised “elites” for voicing concerns that his age, calamitous debate performance and faltering speech will usher Donald Trump back into the White House.