Democrats Disturbed by the White 2020 Candidates Left in Field

With @KamalaHarris out, the debate stage is now all white. @JulianCastro responds:

“What we’re staring at is a DNC debate stage with no people of color on it. That does not reflect the diversity of our party or our country. We need to do better than that.” pic.twitter.com/W73Nw3WI14

— Sawyer Hackett (@SawyerHackett) December 3, 2019

“I’m a little angry, I have to say, that we started with one of the most diverse fields in our history, giving people pride,” Booker told MSNBC’s Chris Hayes on Tuesday.

“And it’s a damn shame now that the only African American woman in this race, who has been speaking to issues that need to be brought up, is now no longer in it,” he continued.

“And we’re spiraling towards a debate stage that potentially…could have six people with no diversity whatsoever,” he added:

Throughout the course of her campaign, Harris was unable to match Biden’s strong support among black voters.

As Breitbart News’s John Nolte reported in August:

In the latest polling, Harris, who is black, is also doing far worse with non-white voters than three of the whitest people in America: Biden, Warren, and Sanders. Whereas they earn 32, 13, and 15 percent of the non-white vote, respectively, Harris earns a measly seven percent.

Even the New York Times acknowledged Harris’s disconnect with black voters:

But in interviews with more than two dozen black voters in Atlanta and across South Carolina, many articulated a particular disenchantment with the idea that racial representation equated to change, and that they should automatically back a candidate who looked like them.

“If I had a Kamala Harris or a Cory Booker that sounded like Bernie Sanders, of course I would choose them, because they’re closer to my lived experience,” Atlanta-area barber Aqil Shakur told the Times.

“But the Kamalas and the Corys aren’t discussing the issues he’s discussing,” he added.

Story cited here.