Joe Biden gets major South Carolina endorsement from former Harris backers

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21. With Kamala Harris out, SC's 'Reckoning Crew' of black voters has new pick for 2020

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Since he entered the race in April, Biden, who touts on the campaign trail his relationship with the state, has not struggled to win over the state’s key black voters — who make up two-thirds of the party’s voting bloc — in the nation’s first southern primary state.

But the Reckoning Crew endorsement could help the former vice president win over undecided voters who may not be tuned into the Democratic presidential primary race just yet and Harris supporters, who are looking for another candidate to back after she bowed out of the presidential race earlier this month, citing campaign financial problems as her reason.

What the decades-old Reckoning Crew can bring to Biden is an organic organizing effort across the Midlands, led by 75-year-old Scott, a former Richland County councilwoman. During the 2016 presidential primary race, the group knocked on hundreds of doors in many of Richland County’s predominately black neighborhoods and staffed phone banks to make calls on behalf of Clinton.

“We plan on putting in the long days and long nights, working around the clock to get out the vote for Joe,” Scott said. “We’ll be making phone calls and hitting the pavement going door-to-door talking to voters about what is at stake in this election. No one can afford to stay home — and they won’t if we have anything to do with it.”
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