Former President Barack Obama experienced backlash on Thursday night for targeting black male voters during a stump speech in Pittsburgh, where he chastised the voting bloc for not showing more support for Vice President Kamala Harris.
The former president claimed that black male voters were not showing the same support for Harris as they did for him when he was running for election, even though the vice president is also part of the black community.
Support for Democratic candidates have been waning since Obama, where 95% of black male voters supported him in 2008. The support dwindled to 87% for Obama in 2012, and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton saw support from 82% of black male voters in 2016, according to The Hill. President Joe Biden received 80% of the black male vote in 2020.
