MAGA Cheers After Key Joe Biden Ally Admits He's 'Very Concerned'

Representative Jim Clyburn, a South Carolina Democrat, said he was "very concerned" on Sunday about President Joe Biden's 2024 reelection campaign, sparking cheers from supporters of Donald Trump's Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement.

Ahead of this year's election, Trump, the frontrunner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, has been shown to be leading Biden in five out of the six key swing states: Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada and Pennsylvania, according to a poll by The New York Times and Siena College that was published in November. Multiple national polls also show the former president leading Biden despite Trump's legal troubles, as he faces a wave of indictments at both the state and federal levels. Trump has maintained his innocence in all cases against him.

This comes as the primary season begins for Democrats and Republicans, with the Iowa caucuses on January 15, followed by the New Hampshire primaries eight days later. Biden has already stamped his authority on the Democratic contest, with no major figure from the party standing against him, while polling indicates Trump is the firm favorite to secure the GOP nomination.

In an interview on CNN's State of the Union on Sunday, Clyburn said he has sat down with Biden to express his concerns about his reelection campaign, but stressed he was "not worried," but "very concerned" about voters, specifically Black voters showing up for Biden in November.

"Well I'm not worried, I'm very concerned...I have no problem with the Biden administration and what it has done. My problem is we have not been able to break through that MAGA wall in order to get to people exactly what this president has done," Clyburn said.

Newsweek has reached out to Biden's campaign via email for comment.

In 2020, Clyburn endorsed Biden ahead of the South Carolina primary, which was widely seen as helpful in Biden's victory. Clyburn added on Sunday that despite recent polls he believes they are not an accurate reflection of "where voters are."

"These polls are not a true reflection of where voters are," the congressman said. "I don't pay attention to those things until we get a contest going forward and the primaries are behind us."

In response to Clyburn's comments, some MAGA supporters took to X, formerly Twitter, to cheer the congressman's concerns over Biden.

The Republican National Committee (RNC) Research account wrote Sunday, "'How worried are you about Black voters showing up for President Biden in November?' Democrat Rep. Jim Clyburn, Biden campaign co-chair: 'I'm not 'worried.' I'm 'very concerned.'"

X user Texan Maga posted, "Clyburn can't break through that MAGA wall- #WallsWork."

MAGA supporter Javon A. Price, wrote, "To all my Black American friends out there, don't fall for this type of bs. The playbook of guilt tripping and gaslighting us into voting Democrat needs to stop. Rather than objectives or tangibles, Clyburn and his CBC friends would rather scream racism than push any policies."

While Jason Miller, former senior adviser to the Trump 2020 reelection campaign, simply posted, "Clyburn knows."

Clyburn's comments come after national and swing state polls recently reviewed by Bloomberg reveal Trump may win more Black votes than any other Republican presidential candidate in history in the 2024 election.

According to the polls, the former president has between 14 and 30 percent of the Black vote share. This is far beyond the 8 percent of the Black vote the Pew Research Center said Trump won in the 2020 election and more than any Republican candidate before him.

In addition, a number of polls are showing growing dissatisfaction with the prospect of Biden running for a second term among Black voters.

A NBC poll conducted last year between September 15 and 19, found that the president's job approval rating had slipped from 80 percent in 2021 to 63 percent among Black voters. The same survey of 1,000 registered voters, however, found Biden still holds 76 percent of the Black vote to 14 percent in favor of Trump in a likely match-up.