Nicki Minaj and the vax mandate may portend the crumbling of the Dems’ hold on 90% of the Black vote September 20, 2021 Thomas Lifson If Biden persists in his vax mandate (and backing down would be regarded as a catastrophic and humiliating defeat), then there is a good chance that 90% of the Black vote for Democrats will be as much a relic of the past as the formerly “Solid South” for the Democrats is today.