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In September, the nonpartisan Black Economic Alliance political action committee endorsed the Democratic ticket. The Congressional Black Caucus PAC, which included the now-deceased civil rights icon John Lewis, endorsed Biden’s presidential bid in April.

Democratic presidential candidates have received nearly 90% of the Black vote on average for the last six decades, not including this election. Trump in 2016 only won 8% of the Black vote, and 9% this year, according to a Tufts University analysis of voting data.

But the balance may be changing, albeit incrementally. Support for the Democratic ticket has been slipping among African Americans, with the Black male vote dropping to 80% this year, lower than the 82% won by Hillary Clinton in 2016 and the 95% and then 87% that went to Barack Obama’s first and second term, respectively. One in three Black men living in the Midwest voted for Trump this year, an NBC News poll of early and election day voters found. And a recent pre-election poll by Upshot found that the racial gap in presidential preference has shrunk by 16% as Trump makes gains with Black and Hispanic voters.

Still, if the numbers are anything to go by, Republican presidential hopefuls have a long way to go with Black voters. According to the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, from 1936 onward, no Republican presidential candidate has ever won more than 40% of the Black vote.