Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont will have breakfast with the Rev. Al Sharpton in NY on Wednesday, a meeting that underscores Mr. Sanders’s push to strengthen his support among black voters.
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The Sanders campaign invested heavily in the Granite State and aggressively advertised on televisions from the north to the suburban Boston enclaves in southern New Hampshire. That assumes that the Sanders’ “revolution” will not have the appeal among Southern blacks that it had among white voters in Iowa and New Hampshire. Look, people are really hurting, now…and people are really angry about “Establishment” politics, ecnomics…about income and wealth inequality.
Let me first say that I’m a Democrat, a woman in the 18-35 demographic, a minority, and an undecided voter. By contrast, she admired Sanders’ stance against “the big money and the banks”.
“You can not appoint our leadership for us”, Mr. Sharpton told The Daily Beast. Campaigning with Clinton on Saturday, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright thundered, “There’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help each other!” – a phrase she’s used before, but one that was specifically targeted at younger female voters who were wooed by Sanders.
“I’m probably the wrong messenger to do that, so what has to be done is getting some young people – and young people love celebrities – that they listen to, to deliver that message”, Meeks said. Bernie Sanders won a decisive victory over Hillary Clinton in the New Hampshire Democratic primary Tuesday, propelled by support from a wide network of men, women, young people and independent voters.
Voters who said “honesty and trustworthiness” was the most important quality to them went for Mr Sanders by 93 per cent to seven per cent.
Dalton Miller thought Mrs Clinton “wasn’t very likeable”.
In New Hampshire, Clinton was on the defensive.
Clinton acknowledged Tuesday night, “People have every right to be angry, but they’re hungry”.
Next up for Democrats is Nevada, a caucus state, and SC, a state Hillary and her team has assumed she would easily win over Sanders. Mrs Clinton is far ahead in polls in both states.
Women between 30 and 44 in 2008 were slightly more likely to support Clinton than Obama, while this year a lot of them supported Sanders.
The Brooklyn-born Sanders beat Hillary Clinton 60 percent to 38 percent.
Sanders and Sharpton met for breakfast at the historic Sylvia’s Restaurant. Barack Obama in 2008. I do not want black concerns to be moved out with them.
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Kasich is trying to make some inroads in SC. Progressive writer Harold Meyerson’s verdict: “A generation gap as wide as the Grand Canyon seems to be opening up in the Democratic Party”. Wolf said the same advice applies to Clinton.
