Ben Kamisar is a deputy political editor in NBC's Political Unit.
President Joe Biden could be facing a turnout problem in 2024. And an experimental stealth campaign during South Carolina's Democratic primary highlights one way players in the Republican Party will be trying to exploit Biden's weaknesses. A conservative group funded by anonymous donors sent mailers to approximately 75,000 Democratic primary voters in South Carolina, a heavily Black electorate, ahead of the Feb.
Those voters, Black voters especially, had a more negative reaction to language saying that Biden had 'criminalized' menthol cigarettes. And the numbers highlighted a key trend seen in other polls: Biden's comparative weakness among younger Democrats.
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