Presidential contenders fight for minority voters in South Carolina
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Presidential contenders fight for minority voters in South Carolina
The fight for black voters turned into a tug-of-war over President Obama’s legacy Friday as Democratic presidential hopefuls looked for an edge in South Carolina. Hillary Clinton stepped up her hammering of rival Bernie Sanders for what she said are his false claims on Obama’s legacy. Prominent black leaders echoed the theme — an effort to use the first African-American president as a wedge between Sanders and black voters. A Democrat cannot win the nomination, much less the White House, without significant backing and enthusiasm from black communities.
He has called the president weak, a disappointment…He does not support, the way I do, building on the progress the president has made.
Clinton on Sanders at a town hall event Friday
Republicans, meanwhile, crisscrossed the state in search of a path out of Donald Trump’s long shadow. South Carolina is another chance to emerge as the viable alternative to the billionaire reality-TV star who snatched the race away from the GOP establishment. Although Trump appears to have a solid lead in the polls in the state, the rest of the field is hoping to peel off support from the large and influential evangelical community. As his rivals hustled through rare snowfall Friday, Trump showed he won’t make it easy. He was able to steal the spotlight with a Twitter threat to sue his closest competitor.
If @TedCruz doesn’t clean up his act, stop cheating, & doing negative ads, I have standing to sue him for not being a natural born citizen.
Trump on Twitter
