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President Biden faces a dual-natured challenge to shore up his support with Black Americans, one of the Democratic Party’s most loyal constituencies. More Black men said they plan to back Donald Trump this fall, according to a recent Wall Street Journal poll of seven swing states. While most Black men said they intend to support Biden, some 30% said they were either definitely or probably going to vote for the former Republican president. There isn’t comparable WSJ swing-state polling from 2020, but Trump received votes from 12% of Black men nationwide that year, as recorded by AP VoteCast, a large poll of the electorate. 11% of Black women said they were either definitely or probably going to vote for Trump. In 2020, 6% of Black women nationwide backed Trump