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Democratic White House hopefuls tout agendas to black voters

NEW YORK (AP) ‐ Democratic presidential candidates on Friday touted their plans on criminal justice reform, the study of reparations and other racial equality issues, highlighting the critical role black voters will play in choosing the party’s 2020 nominee.

Speaking at the National Action Network’s conference in New York, California Sen. Kamala Harris pledged to double the size of the Justice Department’s civil rights division and to sign legislation creating a commission to study reparations to African Americans hurt by slavery. Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders also said he would sign that reparations bill, even as he emphasized the importance of a broader anti-poverty policy.

"We know that they are using the Department of Justice in a way that is about politics and not about pursuit of equality," Harris, one of two black leading candidates for the party’s nomination, told the receptive audience. Earlier on Friday, she told a radio interviewer she would be open to choosing a woman as her running mate if she wins the nomination to take on President Donald Trump.

Sanders, who fell short in his 2016 presidential bid but is a front-runner in 2020, elated the crowd by jabbing at Trump as "a racist, sexist, a homophobe, a xenophobe and a religious bigot."

Posted by Besoeker 2019-04-06 04:21|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ] Top

#1 A snowball's chance in hell for Bernie.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-04-06 04:25|| 2019-04-06 04:25|| Front Page Top

#2 "We know that they are using the Department of Justice in a way that is about politics and not about pursuit of equality," Harris, one of two black leading candidates for the party’s nomination, told the receptive audience.

The other being Elizabeth "Roots" Warren?

Posted by Frank G 2019-04-06 06:15|| 2019-04-06 06:15|| Front Page Top

#3 FREE STUFF!!!

(except for the people who have to pay for it like the descendants of the 250,000 white soldiers who died putting the 13th Amendment into the Constitution)

Posted by Procopius2k 2019-04-06 08:12|| 2019-04-06 08:12|| Front Page Top

#4 Democrat hopefuls tout existence-punishments to non-blacks.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2019-04-06 08:53|| 2019-04-06 08:53|| Front Page Top

#5 Trump seems to be working the criminal justice reform angle. Jobs, too. That leaves reparations and free stuff. I say go for it! Worst that can happen is you alienate most of America, Trump wins the popular vote and all you chumps that ditched the Electoral College are weeping in your soy lattes.

Posted by SteveS 2019-04-06 09:48|| 2019-04-06 09:48|| Front Page Top

#6 Trump wins the popular vote and all you chumps that ditched the Electoral College are weeping in your soy lattes.

Damn - that would be a very interesting turn of events, wouldn't it? I think it's CO, OH and a few other states that have recently chosen to award their EC votes to the winner of the nation's popular vote. I'd love to see them try and explain it away & scramble back to normalcy. Well, as normal as Democrats are going to get...

Posted by Raj 2019-04-06 10:17|| 2019-04-06 10:17|| Front Page Top

#7 "We know that they are using the Department of Justice in a way that is about politics and not about pursuit of equality," Harris, one of two black leading candidates for the party’s nomination, told the receptive audience.

Projection. She's got a lotta damn nerve spouting that crap. Maybe it'd shut her up if a few of Obama's DoJ people were sitting in jail...even better if Obama was sitting in there with them.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2019-04-06 11:32|| 2019-04-06 11:32|| Front Page Top

#8 I think it's CO, OH and a few other states that have recently chosen to award their EC votes to the winner of the nation's popular vote.

We have a proposal to that effect in Ohio, Raj, but it has to get over a few hurdles before getting onto the ballot in November, according to PJ Media.

Posted by trailing wife 2019-04-06 11:56|| 2019-04-06 11:56|| Front Page Top

#9 Raj, not to worry. If Trump wins the popular vote, you know there is a judge somewhere that will invalidate all the states' electoral votes going to him. And, more to the point, so do the people who are pushing this whole thing.

Posted by Tom 2019-04-06 15:28|| 2019-04-06 15:28|| Front Page Top

#10 Wow, 1984 gets more predictive all the time, since some of the barnyard animals are really getting promises to be more equal than the rest of us.

Posted by NoMoreBS 2019-04-06 18:48|| 2019-04-06 18:48|| Front Page Top

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