Sean Rayford via Getty Images Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.), left, and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) attend an NAACP rally in South Carolina, a sign of how important black voters will be to securing the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020. COLUMBIA, S.C. ― The battle for black voters in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary has begun in earnest, a sign of how crucial candidates and strategists view the bloc to a successful campaign. The challenge with black voters may be greatest for Sanders, who faltered here in 2016 after shocking Clinton with a victory in New Hampshire. Since then, Sanders and his allies have worked assiduously to woo black voters, and he’s begun to mention racial discrimination more in his stump speech, bluntly calling Trump a “racist” during his speech here. “I would expect him [Bernie Sanders] to do far worse this year,” said Brady Quirk-Garvan, the chairman of the Charleston Democratic Party.

Source: Huffington Post January 21, 2019 23:37 UTC