How Black male voters could influence the 2024 presidential election

The 2024 presidential race is likely to come down to a razor-thin margin, meaning any one group of people could be the ones to swing the election. In the 2020 election, then-candidate Joe Biden held a sizeable advantage over then-President Donald Trump, but this time around opinion polls suggest that margin has shrunk.

Some voters point to the challenges they face day to day, such as inflation. Others feel disenfranchised by a White House that they say has taken them for granted. So what will influence this key voting group in the upcoming election? And why is it so damaging to think of Black male voters as a monolith?

Host Celeste Headlee puts those questions and more to Democrat advisor Basil Smikle and longtime Republican operative Shermichael Singleton.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.