Dem Activists Fume Over Top Biden PAC Spending Decisions: REPORT

Democratic-aligned organizations are frustrated with President Joe Biden’s top super PAC, arguing that it isn’t focusing enough on voter outreach as the president slips with key demographics in the polls, according to The Hill.

Future Forward, one of the largest super PACs backing Biden’s reelection effort, has denied requests from activist groups to increase outreach key voting blocs, including black and Hispanic voters, Democratic operatives and activists told The Hill. The sources voiced frustration that donors are being told to give strictly to Future Forward while the PAC sits on a massive pile of campaign cash.

“These groups are closer to their constituencies and have more capacity to move votes on the ground than the Biden campaign so give them what they need,” Democratic strategist Brad Bannon told The Hill. “So if these groups need the money to turn out the base, they should make sure they have it.”

Recent polls show former President Donald Trump attracting much higher than usual support among black and Latino voters, with a New York Times/Siena College poll released in March finding that Trump had a six-point lead among Hispanics. Biden won Hispanics by a margin of 65% to Trump’s 32% in 2020, according to a CNN exit poll.

About 18% of black voters living in swing states plan to throw their support behind Trump, according to a May NYT/Siena College poll. Trump garnered just 12% of the black vote in 2020, according to a CNN exit poll.