Warren building unlikely connection with black female voters

[applegrove]

Warren building unlikely connection with black female voters

By ERRIN HAINES WHACK at AP

https://www.apnews.com/7db90b8ea8284995864c4218f3773824

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“To have an ally — she’s a woman, but she’s not a black woman — who can speak intelligently and has thought about people who don’t look like you, that resonates,” said Roxy D. Hall Williamson, a 49-year-old who was in the audience. “She stole the show to me.”

Since her appearance in Houston, Warren published an op-ed further detailing her maternal mortality plan in Essence, the country’s only magazine for black women with a circulation of more than 1 million. She wrote another piece on the significance of historically black colleges for Blavity, a popular website aimed at black millennials.

At this early stage, many black women are undecided about whom they will support. Following Harris’ January campaign launch, there was considerable excitement around her as the sole black woman in the race.

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In Warren, some black women say they see kinship in a candidate who talks with substance and specificity about problems and solutions.

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[JI7]

1. it's not really unlikely

Warren shows she listens to the community and gives them her ideas . so they react positively.

[applegrove]

2. I agree. But I only cut and paste the titles of stories I post.

[JI7]

3. i wasn't criticizing you for posting

just responding to the title

[applegrove]

4. Okay.

[GeniusJoy]

5. I like Warren a lot.

Policy wonk is a great asset to have and she definitely has it.

[applegrove]

6. Plus she gives a good speech. Good energy. She revs up the crowd.

[GeniusJoy]

8. Yes. She's fantastic!

No one running close to her age had her stamina.

[applegrove]

9. She's a nerd but with storytelling chops. And the story is the american

people and how they have been treated for 40 years.

[JCMach1]

7. Am now on Team Warren