Democrats Already Battling for the 2020 Black Vote

Washington Post: “The race for the first Southern primary, which has become a competition for black voters, is well underway, and it’s like nothing South Carolina Democrats have ever seen. For the first time, multiple black candidates with long political résumés are looking seriously at running for president. For the first time, black voters know that a candidate who looks like them can win the White House, because Barack Obama pulled it off.”

“None of the Democratic Party’s black hopefuls is running a campaign yet, although Booker, Harris and Patrick have now made trips to South Carolina and former attorney general Eric Holder will be in Charleston early next month. In conversations at this week’s campaign events, black voters did not worry that any of the black candidates they were hearing from could win; they worried about too many of them piling into the campaign.”