Al Sharpton’s National Action Network convention this week, tailoring their pitch to black voters who complain that Democrats have taken their support for granted and pressed for more from the party. Democrats with state and national ambitions have responded, endorsing automatic voter registration, criminal justice reform and the decriminalization of marijuana. To Sharpton, it seemed that Democrats, with plenty to offer black voters, had opted for a bland anti-Trump campaign. But several of the Democrats seen as potential presidential candidates don’t have an obvious claim on the black electorate. Booker took a similar tone, sometimes chiding the Democrats who had come around on black issues by asking what had taken them so long.

Source: Washington Post April 20, 2018 21:34 UTC