Could you stop being realistic and rational? I don't want you to piss off all of the Warren, Beto & Mayor Pete supporters on this site.
Warren and Beto are running stupid campaigns imo.The writings on the wall what a candidate needs to do to get the democrat nomination and they are barely fighting for it.
Biden has the black vote because of Obama but it is not 100% locked in imo.Harris is the only one running a smart campaign by trying to take the black vote from Biden by force or at least being second in line for their block of votes if Biden blows up.Harris isn't paying much attention to Warren or Sanders.They both are ahead of her overall but she knows if she can get the black vote from Biden she will jump ahead of both of them.Eventually around 80% of black voters will line up behind one candidate and that candidate will be the nominee,its been that way since 1992.Warren and Beto are paying more attention to illegals and Hispanics than black voters.At this point they little chance of ever winning them over imo.Petes police department has screwed him with black voters forever,he has no chance imo.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/cortn...stics-of-his-africanamerican-support-n2550853
CNN Anchor Asks Buttigeig Why He Has No Support From Black Voters
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Posted: Jul 30, 2019 2:00 PM
South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg is struggling to gain African-American support in his bid for the presidency. If he didn't know how bad it was before, he does now, thanks to CNN's Chris Cuomo. The network anchor confronted Buttigieg on his program Monday night about his trouble gaining ground with the demographic. For instance, he cited a recent CNN poll that put his support among blacks at
zero.
“When we look at the polls that came out today from Quinnipiac," Cuomo
noted, "you struggle with African-Americans, literally, defined almost at 0 percent. Why?”
“African-American voters are tired of having been lied to or taken for granted by politicians," Buttigieg countered. "When you are new on the scene, when you haven’t been known for years or decades, and when you’re not yourself from a community of color, you’ve got a lot of extra work to do in order to validate what you have to say and earn that trust.”
Buttigieg's issue with the black community could be related to how he handled a recent police shooting in South Bend. A white police officer, Sgt. Ryan O'Neill, killed 54-year-old African-American Eric Logan after Logan ran at him with a knife, according to O'Neill. Although the city had purchased body cameras for the force, O'Neill was not wearing one when he pulled the trigger.
Buttigieg has also faced some heat for firing the city's first black police chief and for deciding not to release audio tapes of police officers who were reportedly uttering racial slurs. African American members of the community have demanded answers from the mayor and Police Chief Scott Ruszkowski, and Buttigieg was even confronted about the controversy at last month's DNC debates. He's admitted he could have done better, but pushed back at constituents who accused him of complete inaction.
"I don’t want to seem defensive, but we have taken a lot of steps," the mayor
declared at a town hall last month. "They clearly haven’t been enough. But I can’t accept the suggestion that we haven’t done anything."
As the Wall Street Journal
notes, Buttigieg's support among black voters appears to be even less than that of President Trump, who the mayor has identified as a racist.
To start with, Mr. Buttigieg appears to have even lower black support than the president he calls racist. In the 2016 election, Mr. Trump received 8% of the African-American vote, according to exit polls. More recently, even after the House passed a resolution condemning him for racism, a Hill-HarrisX poll reported President Trump enjoying 13% approval among black voters.
Buttigieg will take the debate stage again this week in Detroit. Follow along on the Townhall live blog both tonight and Wednesday night starting at 7:30 p.m.!
