That aforementioned aloft staffer told me that the Sanders beforehand had no complete absorption in agreeable atramentous voters or in reporters who basal to accredit the beforehand on issues important to them, such as arduous the abutment protections that badge acquire if they are accused of killing atramentous people.“It was consistently a dog-and-pony actualization if it came to atramentous outreach,” the aloft staffer said.★ ★ ★ On Air-conditioned Tuesday, powered by astronomic abutment a allotment of atramentous voters, Clinton swept Sanders in 5 Southeastern states and took a advantageous beforehand in assembly that she never relinquished.In Virginia, avenue acclamation showed that Clinton won 84% of the atramentous vote to Sanders’ 16%. In Arkansas, she exhausted him 91% to 9% a allotment of atramentous voters. In Alabama, the allowance was 91% to 6%.Black voters casting their ballots for Clinton so overwhelmingly during the primaries, abnormally in the South, that their accession for her acquainted like a warning: Abstain us and we will coffin you.In Southern states that voted on Air-conditioned Tuesday, even atramentous voters ages 18 to 29—a allotment of the electorate that Sanders’ accession believed they had a beforehand at—voted for Clinton 61% to 36%.And it wasn’t because atramentous bodies didn’t apperceive him, a bruised and intellectually apathetic alibi his staffers and surrogates acquire acclimated for about a year. It was, the interviews suggest, because Sanders’ beforehand didn’t plan harder abounding to win their votes.
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