Har­ris report­ed­ly dis­miss­es ques­tion about declin­ing black turnout: ‘Talk to me after 2024’

Vice Pres­i­dent Kamala Har­ris report­ed­ly refused to address ques­tions over the decline in black vot­er turnout seen by the Demo­c­ra­t­ic Par­ty in the 2022 midterm elec­tions.
Asked about the admin­is­tra­tion’s “dis­con­nect” between its accom­plish­ments and trans­lat­ing them into enthu­si­asm among black Amer­i­cans and high­er vot­er turnout, Har­ris told the New York Times’s Astead W. Hern­don, “Why don’t you talk to me after 2024?”
FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC CRISES UPEND BIDEN 2020 CAMPAIGN PROMISE OF RETURN TO STABILITY
In recent years, Democ­rats have seen sup­port among minor­i­ty groups, includ­ing black Amer­i­cans, decline. Between 2020 and 2023, Pres­i­dent Joe Biden’s share of non-white vot­ers who planned to vote for him dropped from over 70% to 53%, per data from var­i­ous New York Times/Siena Col­lege nation­al polls.
This trend was also reflect­ed in the midterm elec­tions, in which black vot­er turnout dropped 10 points. In the Wash­ing­ton Post’s analy­sis of the Cen­sus Bureau’s turnout sur­vey, black vot­er turnout fell from 51.7% in 2018 to 42% in 2022.
In the New York Tim …