How Trump Could Help Clinton Win Black Voters At Obama Levels
Clinton won back many of the black voters in South Carolina who had voted against her eight years earlier, plus some. She won 86 percent of the African American vote, a greater share than President Obama. According to the Washington Post, she even mobilized an increase in African American turnout with 61 percent of blacks coming to the polls this year compared with 55 percent in 2008.
Democratic pollster Geoff Garin, a chief strategist for Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign and a pollster for Priorities USA Action, the Super PAC supporting her, said the general election polls show even more promising signs for Clinton.
"I think a lot of African American voters see this in part as President Obama's last election and can recognize his legacy is very much at stake in 2016," Garin told TPM. "Usually at this stage in early, pre-election polls, the African American vote often lags anywhere up to 10 points of what it ends up being. In many states she is already performing at the kind of elevated level that President Obama received."
Rep. Cummings said he's "convinced" Clinton can hit Obama's level of support from African Americans, arguing that many black voters see in Clinton a continuation of Obama's legacy, something Clinton's been careful to preserve as she's resisted distancing herself from the President in the primary.
"What endeared African Americans to her was when she bowed out when she knew she wasn't going to have the votes [in 2008] and she was so gracious and so supportive of the President and then when she accepted the opportunity to become secretary of state and was a loyal and very good secretary of state," Cummings said. " African-American people already liked the Clintons so that is a hell of a combination."
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