His rise is evidence of a splintering among black voters
SELMA, Ala. — Mike Bloomberg began his presidential campaign apologizing to black New Yorkers for race-based policing tactics. Yet three months later, as he sprints into Super Tuesday, he finds himself competitive in Southern states with large African American voting blocs.
This counterintuitive rise of a white, Wall Street billionaire who resisted police reform and only re-joined the Democratic Party as he was mulling a White House bid in 2018 is a story of unprecedented ad spending, persuasive surrogates and a fair amount of self-reflection for a man unaccustomed to public mea culpas. It’s also a story of an unusual degree of splintering between black voters in this Democratic primary — between Biden, Bloomberg and Bernie Sanders — compared with past ones.
While Bloomberg has gained traction in the South and among black voters nationally, he is faring poorly in northern and coastal states where his roots run deeper. His home state of Massachusetts is heavily favoring Bernie Sanders, slightly ahead of even its own senator, Elizabeth Warren. California, where Bloomberg tapped into his reserves to flip House seats blue in 2018, is also solidly behind Sanders.
Bloomberg received a mixed reception here: About 10 church attendees stood up and turned their backs to him as he spoke, but others who lined the streets to watch the procession said they plan to vote for him.
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