It’s now almost June, and many high-profile Democrats seem to be in full-blown panic mode over waning enthusiasm among black voters for President Joe Biden. “Prominent Black officials are warning the Biden campaign that the president’s efforts to keep Black voters firmly and enthusiastically in his electoral coalition aren’t working — and that time is running out to get his message across,” Politico‘s Eugene Daniels and Lauren Egan report.

This concern isn’t new. To hear many elected Democrats tell it, the president’s message simply isn’t resonating with many black voters. Here’s New York representative Jamaal Bowman speaking with National Review back in January:

What I’m hearing in my district is how “Bidenomics” hasn’t really hit them in the pocket. I need him in the barbershops. I need him on the basketball courts. I need him talking to the hip-hop community. I need him talking to the sports and athletics community to really get at what is troubling black men.

Polls continue to suggest that Democrats are right to be concerned. As Brittany Bernstein and I reported four months ago:

To flip the script ahead of November, the immediate challenge for Biden is to make the case that another Trump administration will make black voters worse off than they are now, says Axelrod, the former Obama adviser.

“There is an accumulated sense of abandonment that is at play here,” Axelrod says. “I think Trump is trying to create a sort of multiethnic, multiracial, working class, populist movement, and it is attractive to some of these particularly younger, black men who don’t feel like they’ve benefited to the degree they thought they would, or they were told they would.”