Pacific Press/Getty Images/Lev Radin Former Ohio state Sen. Nina Turner (D) introduces Sanders at his first presidential campaign rally in Brooklyn on Saturday. Her subsequent sweep of Southern states where black voters make up an outsize share of the Democratic primary electorate fed a perception that this ideological disposition was costing him votes. His campaign manager is Faiz Shakir, former head of the American Civil Liberties Union’s office in Washington, D.C., and likely the first-ever Muslim to head a major presidential campaign. A photo of his 1963 arrest during a demonstration against school segregation went viral when it emerged during the 2016 campaign. At a CNN town hall on Feb. 25, a questioner confronted Sanders directly about some black voters’ skepticism toward him.

Source: Huffington Post March 05, 2019 21:56 UTC