Cory Booker is wrong. Joe Biden isn't the enemy of black people. Donald Trump is. [View all]
Cory Booker has a problem. He is the only black man running for the Democratic presidential nomination, but he’s polling far behind Joe Biden among African American voters.
It seems Booker thinks the only way he can inch his way up from the bottom tier of contenders is to knock the front-runner out of the way. So as the second Democratic debates approach this week, he has allowed his desperation to take over.
The New Jersey senator has spent much of his presidential campaign trying to convince African Americans that Biden is not their friend. According to Booker, mistakes that Biden made during 36 years in the Senate make him a liability to black people.
But most black people aren’t buying it. In a recent poll of likely Democratic primary voters in South Carolina, a state where African Americans make up the majority of those voters, Biden has 51 percent support among blacks compared with Booker’s 2 percent.
The reason is simple. Biden should not be the target.
Blacks and many other Americans are more concerned about the divisive words the man currently occupying the White House is using today. They won’t be sidetracked by taking up a cause that has no bearing on crucial issues the country is facing right now.
It would benefit Booker to stay focused as well.
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Dahleen Glanton is a columnist for the Chicago Tribune. She joined the Tribune from the Los Angeles Times in 1989, was a metro editor and the Atlanta bureau chief, and covered Hurricane Katrina, the Obama Presidential Center and national gun laws. A Georgia native, she writes regularly about race, civil rights and neighborhood violence
If I were to vote in a presidentialprimary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
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