Biden, who announced last month he would name a woman as vice presidential running mate, has been under increasing pressure from allies and advocacy groups to select a black woman, a move that would serve as recognition that black voters fueled his primary win and could do the same in November with big turnout in key battleground states.

“The choice of a black woman running mate is a motivating factor. That’s relevant. And it should be, and probably is, part of the Biden campaign’s calculations,” said Adrianne Shropshire, executive director of BlackPAC.

Biden has repeatedly said he’ll choose the best candidate who’s ready to be president on Day One, if need be. He has said he has about a dozen potential picks in mind, among them California Sen. Kamala Harris, the only African American woman who ran against him in the primary.

The poll shows 50 percent of those surveyed view Harris favorably and 18 percent unfavorably, giving her a net favorability rating of 32 percentage points.

Georgia Democrats’ 2016 gubernatorial nominee Stacy Abrams, whom Biden advisers have also discussed as a running mate, has a net favorability rating of 36 points. Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, a Biden surrogate in Georgia and with black voters, is lesser-known than Harris and Abrams and has a net favorability rating of 17 points, as does Florida Rep. Val Demings.

BlackPAC’s Shropshire points out that black voters also like white women who are seen as strong Democratic champions, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who has a 40-point favorability rating but isn’t in the running for Biden’s general election bid. Two other senators who ran against Biden in the primary — Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren (+33 point rating) and Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar (+17 points) — also are on his shortlist.

Biden had the highest net favorability rating in the poll: 58 percentage points.

Trump had the lowest rating: -59, 117 points worse than Biden.

Black voters widely dislike President Trump, according to the poll, and his handling of the coronavirus — a major issue in minority communities, where Covid-19 is hitting especially hard.

The polling firm of Normington Petts conducted the online poll for BlackPAC from April 1-5 in Florida, Georgia, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Nevada.

The margin of error is plus or minus 3.5 percentage points. The firm’s previous poll for BlackPAC, in November, accurately forecast Biden’s dominance with black voters.

Black voters expressed a measure of unease with voting by mail in November, which could become necessary during the pandemic, especially in light of a disastrous Wisconsin primary last week that depressed African American turnout.

The poll showed that 64 percent of black voters said they had never cast a vote-by-mail ballot. And though 49 percent said it should be no problem for them, 41 percent worried their vote might not count and an additional 7 percent fretted that the process will be complicated.

Trump’s campaign is aiming to boost his African American support to double digits this election after winning only 8 percent in 2016, according to exit polls. But this poll shows Trump stuck at 9 percent to Biden’s 83 percent — Biden is only 6 points below Hillary Clinton’s share of the vote in the 2016 national exit polls.

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Only 24 percent of black voters polled said Trump has handled the coronavirus well; 76 percent give him a negative rating. By 77 percent to 24 percent, black voters said their communities are doing the best job handling the coronavirus and they felt similarly about the news media’s reporting about the virus, which got a 73 percent to 27 percent favorable rating. Only 22 percent said they trusted Trump to give accurate information about the virus, and 78 percent said they don’t trust the president.

The antipathy toward Trump is a “significant” reason for African American turnout, Shropshire said. It has intensified due to the coronavirus, which 89 percent of black voters said is a real threat, while 86 percent said they fear it will infect them or a family member.

Eight in 10 said they believe the nation is on the wrong track.

“If there were black voters who were willing to give him some credit on the economy, that is gone,” she said. “That black people are paying with their lives for his incompetence on the coronavirus response, will be a motivating factor.”

Shropshire said there’s a contrast with 2016, when Republican voter suppression tactics, advertising from Trump, Russian disinformation and lack of enthusiasm for Clinton combined to keep black voter turnout relatively low and help deliver Rust Belt states and Florida to Trump by paper-thin margins.

One reason for the survey, she said, was to identify those voters and find ways to bring them back and turn them out in November.

Of the subset of black voters who said they did not vote in 2016, 15 percent said Biden’s decision to pick a black woman running mate would make them more likely to turn out in November, and 23 percent said it would make them like him even more — along with 8 percent of Trump’s black voters who said that as well, the poll showed.

“If we are in a position where we can get back these voters from the Obama coalition — who voted for Obama twice but didn’t vote in 2016 — it will have a significant impact on the election,” Shropshire said.

