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Liz Wolfe | 10.16.2024 9:30 AM

Kamala Harris thinks she's in trouble with black men and has proceeded to pander accordingly. She called in the heavy reinforcements—former President Barack Obama—to vouch for her in Pittsburgh, where he said that distaste for Kamala Harris "seems to be more pronounced with the brothers," which he attributed to sexism.

He doubled down later, when giving remarks at her campaign headquarters: "Part of it makes me think that, well, you just aren't feeling the idea of having a woman as president, and you're coming up with other alternatives and other reasons for that," said Obama, seemingly unable to imagine other reasons for opposing Harris.

"Recent polling from CBS News and the New York Times/Siena Poll suggests that, though the vice president is winning the majority of Black men, she is so far well behind the kinds of numbers the party drew in 2020 and 2016," reports Politico. "The latter survey, which included an oversample of Black voters, found the support for Harris drew just 78 percent support—in past elections, Democrats have drawn 90 percent of Black voters."

Team Harris is freaking out. They released a set of policy planks aimed at this demographic group—called the "Opportunity........

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