Posted on 02/27/2020 7:38:40 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
ROCK HILL, S.C. — Democrats are getting a taste of their own medicine after years of playing the race card against Republicans.
All of the top Democratic presidential candidates have racial blemishes on their records, and their rivals have been more forceful in targeting them as they fight tooth and nail for black voters in the first-in-the-South primary Saturday.
Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden has faced blowback over the 1994 crime bill that activists blame for putting more minorities behind bars. Sen. Bernard Sanders of Vermont has been challenged on his commitment to confront the gun violence that has been a scourge to the black community.
Former Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Indiana, has been haunted by racial tensions in his hometown, and Sen. Amy Klobuchar’s tough-on-crime prosecutorial record is getting more attention.
Meanwhile, former hedge fund manager Tom Steyer has caught flak for having invested in private prisons and former New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has been skewered for “stop and frisk” policing tactics that have become indefensible in the eyes of some activists.
“While it is more likely to be a Democratic charge leveled against Republicans now, within the Democrat primary there can also be charges of race baiting or racial tension of one sort or another,” said Brent Nelsen, political science professor at Furman University.
The reason, he said, boils down to simple arithmetic: Somewhere around six in 10 of the Democrats who vote in the primary Saturday is expected to be black.
“They are all struggling for some portion of that vote,” he said.
An outside group that backs President Trump launched a race-infused attack this week against Mr. Biden, rolling out a television ad aimed at black voters that pulled excerpts from former President Barack Obama’s 1995 memoir, “Dreams From My Father.”
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