With young black Democratic voters more open to Bernie Sanders in SC, the Vermont Senator has a major opportunity to eat into rival Hillary Clinton’s African-American vote bank in the state on February 27, according to a recent Reuters/Ipsos poll. On foreign policy, an area where the former Secretary of State tends to dominate, both candidates gave history lessons.
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Sanders had just scored a resounding victory over Hillary Clinton in the New Hampshire primary when his camp released a new ad on the power of standing together. She said at an appearance in Las Vegas past year that she would “go even further” than President Barack Obama to stop the deportation of immigrants in the country illegally. That’s what I’ve always stood for.
“I’m the only candidate who will take on every barrier to progress”. To wipe out such a perception, the Senator created hype on his civil rights activism during his college days and took part in publicity events with rapper Killer Mike. How important – how big is the African-American vote in the Democratic primary there in SC? Earlier this week, the caucus’ PAC endorsed her, though Clyburn at the time chose to remain neutral in his support. There are more than 1,400 delegates at stake in states such as South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee and Louisiana, and depending on the outcome and proportional allocation of delegates, Clinton could build a comfortable lead. But that doesn’t mean she disagrees with the sentiment behind them. She then repeated a jab at Sanders’s reputation as a truth-teller that she would return to during the debate: “You need to level with people about what they will have at the end of the process you are proposing”. Trump has called for the mass deportation of people living in the country illegally and a temporary ban on Muslims seeking to travel to and visit the United States.
She doubled down the next day showering President Obama with praise in SC and Minnesota, while her campaign questioned Sanders’ loyalty on Snapchat.
SEN. BERNIE SANDERS (VT-I), Democratic Presidential Candidate: That is…
Beside Manhattanite Trump (with 35.3 percent of the New Hampshire vote), Clinton served as senator from NY for eight years, although she’s originally from IL via Arkansas.
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“I hope that other women feel the right to choose their candidate based on themselves and their families – that they can be independent-minded and they don’t feel owned by a particular political party, because that is really insulting”, Kleefisch said. And if the polls are to be trusted, that doesn’t bode well for Sanders nationwide: Hillary Clinton still has a sizable lead in most other states, driven largely by a huge advantage among black voters.
