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🚨 NEW: A story exploring why Kamala Harris' road to securing Obama-esque levels of black community support may be a bumpy one. Based on dozens of interviews with black voters across early primary states. Me + @susanchira. I'll thread impt points
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Harris pluses are clear, and skepticism from black left well-known. Our reporting found other fault lines: young black voters who, after Obama, are wary to put racial solidarity over ideology. And beef from black men, which included some sexist language
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What two SC black men told me abt why they'd prefer Booker to Harris
“She’s a woman...And we need strong backs right now. I don’t know if she can pull off that type of strength to take on Trump."
"I don't know if she's aggressive enough to battle.”
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“She’s a woman...And we need strong backs right now. I don’t know if she can pull off that type of strength to take on Trump."
"I don't know if she's aggressive enough to battle.”
nytimes.com/2019/01/29/us/…
But in most loyally voting areas of Democratic base -- older black women -- Harris enjoys a huge advantage. This could create situation where she never builds cross-generational black coalition, but she STILL has path to nomination
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