A gathering of Democratic senators, organized by the Rev Al Sharpton, reviewed the first year of Trump’s presidency in New York‘We did it to ourselves’: Cory Booker blames low African American turnout for Trump's winCory Booker, one of only two black Democrats in the US Senate, on Friday cited the low voting rate of African Americans as a factor in Donald Trump’s shock victory in the 2016 presidential election. “We did it to ourselves,” the New Jersey senator told African American political and community leaders in New York, a gathering organized by civil rights leader the Rev Al Sharpton. Cory Booker blasts Republicans for amnesia over Trump's 'shithole' remark Read moreSharpton’s National Action Network advocacy group brought together a handful of Democratic senators who are thought possible candidates for president in 2020. Also attending were Kamala Harris of California, the only other African American Democrat in the Senate; Bernie Sanders, the Vermont independent who challenged Hillary Clinton in 2016; Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Kirsten Gillibrand from New York. Warren declared that racial bias made it much harder for African Americans to get mortgages than whites.

Source: The Guardian April 20, 2018 21:35 UTC