That's true for literally any D candidate, black Americans don't vote for Republicans. Turnout, however, is a different story altogether, but the anti-Trump turnout might make up for a weak candidate.
Winning over black voters if vital for winning the primary though. If he can't win over at least some of the community soon, his campaign is dead in the water.
...I'm going to say something about Harris' supposed "unlikability" that may get some people a bit huffy.
I've pointed out before that the anti-Harris ADOS crap was mostly coming from Russian bots. But that was them playing on racial issues again. There's something a bit similar going on here, though.
Ain't it a bit odd that the same people fixated on her supposed awful campaign never want to look into, say, Beto's sudden polling collapse? Or how Pete demoted a black police chief for listening to tapes of white supremacist cops, and effectively protected the cops? How did this fall to The Young Turks, a goofy Youtube group so badly managed that they somehow managed to launch the asinine punditry of both David Rubin *and* Jimmy Dore? Shouldn't NYT be looking into that rather extraordinary issue with the mayor?
Or are they giving another loving interview to some Nazi wannabe? Or, you know, another hit piece from the Bloomberg campaign (Oh, you didn't know)? Of course, these same people couldn't be bothered to look into Toupee Fiasco's extensive racism/mob ties/money laundering/tax and banking fraud/etc. either...
Isn't it a bit odd that, for all the caterwauling about how "mean" she was to Gabbard...she was absolutely correct to note how happily Gabbard just flat-out agreed with whatever right-wing lies her interviewers said, or that she was cozy with the likes of Steve Bannon and Tucker Carlson, which should be a severe concern to anyone who believes in equality under the law?
As obnoxious as Bernie Bros can be, when they say that MSNBC has all but frozen out Sanders...they do have a point.
Similarly, Harris online advocates are fierce, but when they say that the coverage of the only black woman in the race has been relentlessly negative almost from the start, despite still being ahead of several other people who are either ignored or treated more positively...they're right. And anyone who has seen how black women are often treated in the US will know exactly what's up here.
Is she perfect? Of course not, and I've pointed out several candidates that I also like.
But when I hear y'all wave her off and then talk about how Pete is just so smart and nice, I start to wonder if some of y'all are listening to punditry, instead of looking at the candidates themselves.
And as for the mystery of how Pete is unable to connect with black voters...it's no mystery at all.
His record towards nonwhite people is garbage, and I've been saying it for months now - long before the Young Turks covered it, because people in South Bend were saying so, publicly and loudly. Not GOP-level "muslims should be banned from entering the country and should have to wear special armbands if their here" level, granted - which is to say, he doesn't actively invite Nazi comparisons, which isn't a bar so much as a buried power line in terms of getting over it. But definitely "Well, I do live in Maryland, I may vote for a third party, or just leave it blank" level.
And I'm speaking as a guy who grew up in a civil rights family, who was taught to vote in every election, and brought to the voting booth every election with my mother and grandfather as a child, and my extended family all call each other to demand that one another vote - only reason I don't vote early here is that it's faster in my pleasant suburb to go on election day.
(I'm also reminded of the fact that Sanders basically never bothered to try to win the black vote - a mistake which handed Clinton the entire south, and quite a few other states, in 2016.)
