Sunday’s speech was notable for its sweeping pledges of direct aid to black voters and its laments about America’s racial violence. Like other Democratic candidates, Bloomberg supports studying the concept of federal reparations for descendants of slaves, but has not endorsed any specific plan, his advisers said. registered 9 percent support with the group, and former South Bend, Ind., mayor Pete Buttigieg continued to trail with 2 percent among African Americans. Nearly half of black voters in the poll had no opinion of Bloomberg or had never heard of him. When he faced a black Democratic challenger in 2009, Bloomberg received about 1 in 4 black votes.

Source: Washington Post January 19, 2020 17:18 UTC