Is it time for Biden to be Biden?

President Joe Biden spoke directly to Black Americans Monday at the Mother Emanuel AME Church, in Charleston, South Carolina. It was the site where a white supremacist massacred nine worshipers during Bible study, and where President Obama, at the memorial service for those who died, sang “Amazing Grace.” What better place for the president to effectively launch his re-election campaign to win back Black voters, who are so central to the Democrats’ base. And what better place to learn why Biden will likely still be losing ground with Black, Hispanic, and younger voters.

Fortunately, the president added some asides that could become part of a very different message and get heard in the Black community and the Democratic base.

On Monday, the president welded the “poison” of “white supremacy” to the violent MAGA Republicans who threaten our democracy, the “insurrectionists waving Confederate flags inside the halls of Congress.” He called on voters to reject their “cramped view of America,” and to rally around his vision, where “we [can] all do well.” America is “not perfect,” Biden said, but it is “a nation continuously striving to be a more perfect union.”

And then he laid out his main strategy for re-election. I kept “my commitment to you,” and “I’ve done my best to honor your trust.”

The full article can be read at The American Prospect.