DANVILLE, Va. -- Ten minutes into a small community meeting between black farmers from southern Virginia and regional campaign staff for Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, an aide took the floor.He was the only white person to speak in a room of older black voters seated in an old beauty salon.
DANVILLE, Va. — Ten minutes into a small community meeting between black farmers from southern Virginia and regional campaign staff for Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, an aide took the floor.
“No disrespect,” called out Lauren Hudson, a 62-year-old hemp farmer, “but there’s a whole different avenue when we go for funding versus when a white family goes for funding.” Story continuesSanders had 20% support, driven largely by his popularity with black voters under 35 years old. Warren was third in The Post’s poll, with 9%.
Biden’s candidacy is helped by several factors, including his widespread name recognition, public proximity to former President Barack Obama, and close relationship with black community leaders dating to his years in the Senate. In “Medicare for All,” free college and other signature progressive proposals, like the cancellation of student loan debt or housing equality, candidates are asking black voters to trust that government can correct the same systemic inequalities that government helped create. But there is often no plan to undo the cynicism that decades of governmental failure have created among older black voters in particular.
He said that his personal politics precluded him from voting for Biden in the Democratic primary, but that Biden was boxing out the progressive candidates among some vital black communities.
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