President Joe Biden knows just what will help black voters turn out to the polls in November: delaying a ban on menthol cigarettes by a few months until after the election.

Under Biden, the Food and Drug Administration has worked toward enacting a ban on menthol cigarettes for two years, but it has recently moved to delay the finalization of the ban until after the election.

The delay is blatant election-year pandering. Biden is trying to shore up support among black voters, a demographic that, according to recent polling, is somewhat shifting away from him, imperiling his reelection prospects, and he believes that keeping menthol cigarettes accessible will help him politically.

Now, the jury may be out on whether or not delaying this regulation will actually help Biden keep black voters in the Democratic fold, but by treating the regulation as an electoral tool to shore up support among the demographic, he is showing how little he thinks of black voters.

Black voters, according to Biden and his party, can be swayed to vote for the president by delaying this one rule that will no doubt take effect after the election if Biden is able to win reelection. In other words, Biden and the partisan Democrats at the FDA think black voters are so dumb they will vote for the Democratic Party as long as they can buy menthol cigarettes through Election Day.

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With such a small view of this voter demographic, it is no surprise that polling has continually shown that former President Donald Trump is doing better among black voters than any Republican has in more than a half-century. Biden has overseen rampant inflation, wage stagnation, and an unparalleled border crisis.

These are problems that matter to voters of all skin colors. But Biden thinks he can neutralize these serious electoral liabilities with a bit of old-fashioned pandering.