COLUMBIA, S.C. - Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker focused Monday on extending his campaign outreach to black men, holding a roundtable in South Carolina with roughly three dozen black male voters, some of whom said they have felt overlooked amid a focus on the electoral power of black women. One by one, the men gathered at Booker’s South Carolina presidential campaign headquarters thanked him for highlighting their concerns. The New Jersey senator, one of two black men seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, said he was mostly there to listen. Harris has also specifically homed in on black men in South Carolina, in October going to a Columbia barbershop for a conversation on black men’s issues. Part of the explanation for lower support from black men, Seawright said, could be attributed to high incarceration rates among black men, as well as post-incarceration restrictions on voting.

Source: thestar December 02, 2019 16:39 UTC