Biden’s support among black voters in deep blue Philadelphia is collapsing amid anger over inflation, immigration and president’s support for foreign wars

President Biden’s support among Black voters may have fallen in his beloved Philadelphia as the White House continues to struggle with poor polling.

The 80-year-old president received a frosty reception in the City of Brotherly Love as dozens of residents in predominantly black neighborhoods were interviewed by the New York Times.

The outlet said they found only eight voters who wanted to vote for Biden in November. Some said they sided with former President Trump, while others plan to stay home entirely.

It comes as CNN polls showed Trump has surged among black voters, with 22 percent of the population now supporting him, compared to just nine percent in the 2020 election.

Of dozens of voters surveyed, only a fraction of Black voters in Philadelphia said they were committed to supporting Biden, while some said they were leaning toward Trump instead.

While not a widespread sample in Philadelphia, the New York Times polls of Black voters in the city highlight the issues that many experts see as Biden’s weaknesses ahead of the election.

In particular, Biden’s focus on foreign policy — including sending billions to fund conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East — has seemingly turned off voters.

“I don’t care what happens abroad,” said Latasha Humphrey, 36, who described herself as a rare Trump-leaning voter.

‘It matters to me where I live.’

Several polls in recent months have shown that Biden’s support among normally staunch Democratic demographics has waned in recent months, with young voters also reportedly flocking to Trump.

Notably, Biden still has the lead among both young and black voters, with a new one New York Times/Philadelphia Inquirer/Siena College a survey last week showed he has 69 percent support among black voters in Pennsylvania.

However, this figure is 10 percent lower than his support in June 2020, and experts pointed out that Democrats routinely rely on high turnout to counter their lack of support in some suburbs.

In that recent survey, Trump had a three percent lead over Biden statewide, but Philadelphia City Councilman Isaiah Thomas warned that may not be enough to drive Black voters to the polls.

“It will be easy to convince people not to vote for Trump,” Thomas began. “It will be difficult to convince people to vote for Biden.

“Those are two completely different fights.”

Former President Trump has seen a rise in the polls among both young and black voters, traditionally Democratic strongholds in elections

Trump’s support among black voters rose to 22 percent compared to 2020, when the 45th president only had the support of 9 percent of the population.

Biden’s Black media director, Jasmine Harris, told the New York Times in response that the reelection campaign was not taking Black voters for granted.

“(The campaign treats) black voters as targets for persuasion, spending the same resources to reach them as traditional voters.”

“We won’t really see the results of our campaign among Black voters until we get closer to Election Day,” Harris said in a statement.

New polling averages from CNN also showed that Black voters are moving toward Trump, with his poll numbers rising to 22 percent compared to 2020, when the 45th president only had the support of 9 percent of the demographic.

Biden, on the other hand, saw his 81 percent of black voter support drop to 69 percent in 2020.

CNN data analyst Harry Enten said this could be a “troubling sign” for the Biden campaign heavily dependent on black voters to get him into the White House last time.

If the trend of black voters aligning with Trump continues, he could win a larger share of them than any Republican presidential candidate since 1960, Enten added.

“This would be by far the best performance for a Republican candidate among black voters in a generation, two generations, probably since 1960 and Richard Nixon versus John F. Kennedy… This could be a truly historic margin.”

This is because the two candidates agreed to debate each other twice – first on June 27 with CNN and again on September 10 with ABC News.