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In reply to the discussion: Do you think Warren as VP will alienate AA voters? [View all]frazzled
(18,402 posts)40. We're comparing her support to Harris's
So we have to go back to the primaries
Joe Biden leads with black voters, and Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders are making better inroads with younger ones than Kamala Harris and Cory Booker. In interviews, voters rejected the idea that racial representation equated to change.
... In the latest national polls, Senators Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Bernie Sanders of Vermont, the two progressive standard bearers in the Democratic primary, are Mr. Bidens closest rivals in terms of black support not Ms. Harris, of California, or Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/25/us/politics/2020-election-black-voters.html
Your results from Massachusetts are pretty irrelevant in this discussion. Harris dropped out of the race on December 3, 2019 (A bit more than a week after the above article was published). The Massachusetts primary didnt take place until March 3, 2020, three months later. And using Massachusetts results as a yardstick for African American support would not be very indicative in the first place: the black population there is only 8.8%, well below the national average.
Warren, for better or worse, has more support from younger, more progressive black voters.
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I would love Warren to be the VP because I want to see a progressive candidate but I think Biden
walkingman
Aug 2020
#5
I honestly don't know. DW and I had this conversation yesterday. I suspect that Harris being from
walkingman
Aug 2020
#10
Thanks for the info - that makes me feel better. Living in Texas I do not hear much progressive
walkingman
Aug 2020
#22
WHy don't these so called progressives ever care about the issues. They always need to be
JI7
Aug 2020
#44
Latest YouGov/Yahoo poll has Harris doing better with Black voters, than Warren.
PunkinPi
Aug 2020
#47
I honestly believe that the best choice is the current Governor of New Mexico.
Blue_true
Aug 2020
#38
Warren won't be VP. She'll be excellent in a cabinet position, like Treasury.
octoberlib
Aug 2020
#27