For the first time, Biden is leading Sanders among black 18- to 29-year-old Democratic primary voters, 35% to 30%.

Morning Consult’s latest 2020 Democratic primary tracking poll of more than 15,000 Democratic primary voters found that for the first time, Biden is leading Sanders among black 18- to 29-year-olds, 35 percent to 30 percent.

Sen. Bernie Sanders is holding onto much of his support with young people, but former Vice President Joe Biden has gained ground in recent weeks with a key Democratic constituency: young black voters.

The shift marks a split between the youngest black voters and the youngest white voters — among whom Sanders still leads, 35 percent to 22 percent — and comes as Biden begins to make his case to primary voters ahead of the first primary debates in late June.

But it is not clear if that support is solid — and whether Biden could carry it into the primaries and the general election next year.

Symone Sanders, a 29-year-old senior strategist for Biden’s campaign, said many young people know Biden as former President Barack Obama’s No. 2, something that presents an opportunity to tie himself to the popular ex-president as the race takes shape — but it also presents a challenge as other candidates start litigating their case against him.

“To the extent the Biden folks want to build on their support with African Americans, they need a concrete agenda for the African American community,” Jarrod Loadholt, a South Carolina-born Democratic strategist who lives in Georgia, said in a Tuesday interview.

The comments echoed those of Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), one of the three black Democrats seeking the party’s nod for the presidency, who said at an NAACP dinner Sunday that Democrats’ ongoing conversation about electability in the Midwest often leaves out black Americans in the region’s major metro areas, according to an account by BuzzFeed News.