Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: The CBC is still ridin' with Biden

Abbreviated Pundit Roundup is a long-running series published every morning that collects essential political discussion and analysis around the internet.

We begin today with Marianna Sotomayor and Leigh Ann Caldwell of The Washington Post and their report that the Congressional Black Caucus will continue to ride with President Joe Biden.

With Biden once again on the political ropes, some Black members of the House appear ready to rally behind the embattled chief executive, in an embrace that will significantly influence whether the Democratic president can stay in his reelection race, according to five people familiar with the conversations.

The importance of the roughly 60-member Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) — which includes Clyburn and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) — was on display Monday night as Biden met with the bloc in a Zoom call, the first with a group of elected lawmakers. The message that many Black Democrats planned to convey to Biden, according to the people familiar with the CBC’s thinking: We will stick by you as we always have. [...]

The desire to defend Biden appears to be so widespread among the CBC members, three people aligned with the group said, it is possible the group formalizes its support for him in a statement over the next several days. The group’s influence could blunt the widespread concerns of other colleagues about Biden, and possibly sway Jeffries’s opinion as to how House Democrats should respond in an unprecedented moment.

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