Even Danny Glover, a flat out red whose support he is far from rejecting, can't help him.
The Republicans would red bait Bernie to death, though Hillary hasn't in any serious way, nor have her surrogates.
She needs as many Sanders people as possible to show up in November.
Despite efforts of prominent African American supporters and actor Danny Glover, eclectic crowd of 6,000 was mostly white and included man in bear suit.
Sanders, who was preceded by a former head of the NAACP, a prominent local pastor and the actor Danny Glover, tried hard to convince African Americans that he was attuned to the problems of a majority black city with a history of racial tension.
But the crowd of about 6,000 was mostly white.
Despite the efforts of prominent African American supporters and many mentions of his long support for the civil rights movement, Sanders’ campaign has struggled and sometimes failed spectacularly to appeal to African American voters.
Exit polls have shown black voters favor Hillary Clinton by lopsided margins around the country, and the former secretary of state won among African Americans in New York by a 3-to-1 margin on Tuesday.
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[Sanders] insisted that his campaign is “listening to an African American community”.
“They are asking a simple but profound question,” he said: “How do we always seem to have trillions of dollars for war in Iraq or elsewhere but don’t seem to have money in inner cities?”
The people who introduced Sanders carried an air of profound alienation with politics in the era of Barack Obama.
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