'We're the Base': Black Democrats in South Carolina Want to Send a Message

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. — In 2008 and 2016, black voters in South Carolina’s presidential primary set the last two Democratic nominees on their way, backing Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton by huge margins. Rival candidates never managed to catch up in the race for delegates to clinch the nomination.

On Saturday, black Democrats are set to play a far different role in the state’s primary vote, coming to the aid of a candidate who is struggling, former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. At the same time, it is unclear if that support will be enough to help him win in other states. Black voters are likely to split, perhaps sharply, along generational and ideological lines, and spread their votes across contenders, rather than coalesce once again behind a single candidate.

More broadly, in interviews with African-Americans across the state this past week, many said they were eager to send a message to the national Democratic Party: that their views on electability — which candidate is best suited to beat President Trump — would not be shaped by outcomes in the predominantly white states Iowa and New Hampshire, which backed former Mayor Pete Buttigieg and Senator Bernie Sanders in contests earlier in February.

“We’re the base, and we’re yet to express ourselves,” said David Cakley, a church deacon from Goose Creek, S.C, referring to black voters. “Biden needs a boost and we’re going to give it to him.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/elections-2020/were-the-base-black-democrats-in-south-carolina-want-to-send-a-message/ar-BB10yftD?li=BBnb7Kz

[GulfCoast66]

1. And did they ever give him a boost!

[empedocles]

2. Black voters said on MSNBC tonight to go 6-1 Biden over Sanders.

For a Dem 'frontrunner' to have those numbers? Something very wrong there.

[Historic NY]

3. Just reading the comments warms the heart...

thank you South Carolina. Biden country.