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From:ntanden@gmail.com To: john.podesta@gmail.com Date: 2016-02-22 02:24 Subject: Ben Jealous

I know there are a million reasons to desperately want Hillary to win, but Ben Jealous feeling that he has no power is a particularly good one. In a Black Church in South Carolina, Bernie Sanders Struggles to Get an ‘Amen’ By YAMICHE ALCINDORFEB. 21, 2016 Photo A crowd of about 5,200 gathered to hear Bernie Sanders at a rally Sunday in Greenville, S.C. At a black church the same day, the reception was less enthusiastic. CreditSam Hodgson for The New York Times Advertisement Continue reading the main story <http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/22/us/politics/in-a-black-church-in-south-carolina-bernie-sanders-struggles-to-get-an-amen.html#story-continues-1> Continue reading the main story <http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/22/us/politics/in-a-black-church-in-south-carolina-bernie-sanders-struggles-to-get-an-amen.html#story-continues-1>Share This Page - Email - Share - Tweet - Save - More Continue reading the main story <http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/22/us/politics/in-a-black-church-in-south-carolina-bernie-sanders-struggles-to-get-an-amen.html#story-continues-1> WEST COLUMBIA, S.C. — The problem began as soon as Bernie Sanders <http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/us/elections/bernie-sanders-on-the-issues.html?inline=nyt-per>walked into the dining room of the revered and predominantly black Brookland Baptist Church here. Instead of flocking to him, as supporters do at his large college rallies, many of the church’s 780 members present looked up for a moment, then quietly went back to eating their Sunday feast — unmoved as Mr. Sanders, the senator from Vermont, tried to work the room. Mr. Sanders delivered remarks at a microphone next to a buffet table offering chicken, collard greens and dinner rolls. “We have, in America today, a broken criminal justice system,” Mr. Sanders said at the microphone, pausing briefly after this line from his stump speech, which is usually met with applause. Here it garnered very little, and the line for the food kept moving. Brookland Baptist Church proved a tough crowd. Presidential Election 2016 <http://www.nytimes.com/news-event/election-2016>Here’s the latest news and analysis of the candidates and issues shaping the presidential race. - Delegate Count Leaving Bernie Sanders With Steep Climb FEB 21 <http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/22/us/politics/delegate-count-leaving-bernie-sanders-with-steep-climb.html?rref=collection%2Fnewseventcollection%2FPresidential%20Election%202016> - Ted Cruz and Donald Trump Head Toward Super Tuesday With G.O.P.’s Deepest Pockets FEB 21 <http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/22/us/politics/ted-cruz-and-donald-trump-have-deepest-pockets-ahead-of-super-tuesday.html?rref=collection%2Fnewseventcollection%2FPresidential%20Election%202016> - Donald Trump’s Victory Spurs Renewed Scrambling Among Republicans FEB 21 <http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/22/us/politics/donald-trumps-victory-south-carolina-spurs-renewed-scrambling-among-republicans.html?rref=collection%2Fnewseventcollection%2FPresidential%20Election%202016> - South Carolina and Nevada Takeaways: Messages Get Results FEB 21 <http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/22/us/politics/south-carolina-nevada-highlights.html?rref=collection%2Fnewseventcollection%2FPresidential%20Election%202016> - The Party of Bush Yields, Warily, to a New Face: Donald Trump FEB 20 <http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/21/us/politics/bush-family-donald-trump.html?rref=collection%2Fnewseventcollection%2FPresidential%20Election%202016> See More » <http://www.nytimes.com/news-event/election-2016> His visit here underscored Mr. Sanders’s challenge in strengthening his support among black voters in South Carolina, where the majority of Democrats casting a ballot in the state’s primary on Saturday will be black and where his rival for the presidential nomination, Hillary Clinton, seems to be holding on to a sizable lead. Continue reading the main story <http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/22/us/politics/in-a-black-church-in-south-carolina-bernie-sanders-struggles-to-get-an-amen.html#story-continues-3> GRAPHIC Who Is Leading the South Carolina Polls A look at the latest results for Iowa and New Hampshire, and how this year compares to previous election seasons. OPEN GRAPHIC <http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/01/21/us/elections/iowa-new-hampshire-presidential-election-polls-clinton-trump-sanders-cruz.html> As Mr. Sanders moves on from a loss in the Nevada caucuses, now more than ever he must expand his base beyond the young and working-class whites who pack his events. Mr. Sanders and his campaign aides stress that they have not given up on winning South Carolina, but they also say they are realistic about their chances and plan to focus on states beyond, like Virginia, Michigan, Ohio and Colorado. That decision has raised questions about Mr. Sanders’s commitment to courting black voters and whether he is moving resources to states where his message of a rigged economy will do better with young and working-class whites. Still, Mr. Sanders’s campaign, powered by four million individual donations, has the resources to remain in the race for some time. Nationally, 53 percent of black Democrats polled by Gallup <http://www.gallup.com/opinion/polling-matters/189263/clinton-sanders-images-across-racial-ethnic-groups.aspx?g_source=FAVORABILITY&g_medium=topic&g_campaign=tiles> over the past month said they held a favorable opinion of Mr. Sanders, while 82 percent viewed Mrs. Clinton favorably. And 31 percent of blacks said they did not know enough about Mr. Sanders to rate him, while only 6 percent said the same about Mrs. Clinton. Despite those numbers, Mr. Sanders said he would fight to win delegates in South Carolina. “No state is a lost cause. We have made enormous ground up in South Carolina,” Mr. Sanders said last week when asked whether he was giving up on the state. “Primaries and caucuses are not winner take all.” Soon after losing the Nevada caucuses on Saturday night, Mr. Sanders rushed onto a flight to South Carolina, a state he has visited six times since announcing his candidacy, and where his campaign has 200 paid staff members and 10 offices. Tad Devine, a senior campaign adviser, said he understood that Mrs. Clinton had an advantage in the state. But, Mr. Devine added, the Sanders campaign has invested heavily in advertising targeting black voters in the state, with $711,000 spent on television and cable advertising and $381,000 on black radio stations. Advertisement Continue reading the main story <http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/22/us/politics/in-a-black-church-in-south-carolina-bernie-sanders-struggles-to-get-an-amen.html#story-continues-5> Advertisement Continue reading the main story <http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/22/us/politics/in-a-black-church-in-south-carolina-bernie-sanders-struggles-to-get-an-amen.html#story-continues-5> “It’s unfair to say we have given up on the black vote in South Carolina because we are campaigning in states, like Virginia, which have an event three days after South Carolina,” Mr. Devine said. “This race is turning from a state campaign to a multistate campaign.” Michael Briggs, a spokesman for Mr. Sanders, added that the events on Sunday, which included a rally in Greenville of about 5,200 mostly white supporters in addition to his appearance at Brookland Baptist Church, illustrated that the senator was committed to competing in the state. “He said all along that it is a matter of going from state to state to state, picking up delegates, it’s going to be a long haul,” Mr. Briggs said. “We’ve got resources to go for a while.” Continue reading the main story <http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/22/us/politics/in-a-black-church-in-south-carolina-bernie-sanders-struggles-to-get-an-amen.html#story-continues-6> GRAPHIC 2016 Primary Results and Calendar The 2016 primaries and caucuses have begun. See results and upcoming primary dates. OPEN GRAPHIC <http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/us/elections/primary-calendar-and-results.html> Additionally, Ben Tulchin, a pollster for the Sanders campaign, said Mr. Sanders was focused on making sure he got to states with large black populations in the Midwest and in battleground states that would be crucial to winning the general election. “South Carolina is a deep red state, but Bernie is doing better in battleground states with large African-American populations like Michigan, like Illinois, like Ohio, which have real bearing on this race and the primary but also have real bearing in the general election,” Mr. Tulchin said. “The reality is South Carolina is not a battleground state in the general election, right? So even if we can’t close it there, it has no bearing whatsoever in the general election, right?” While the state may not go to Democrats in the general election, it may help Mrs. Clinton beat Mr. Sanders. At the church here on Sunday, several tables of black women who said they were supporting Mrs. Clinton quietly continued eating as the senator and a surrogate, Benjamin T. Jealous, a former N.A.A.C.P. <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/n/national_association_for_the_advancement_of_colored_people/index.html?inline=nyt-org> president, went around shaking hands. Bernadette L. Rogers, a 67-year-old retired social worker, said that Mr. Sanders seemed sincerely interested in issues facing blacks but that she thought Mrs. Clinton’s experience made her the better candidate. “I just feel like this go-round, it is her time,” Ms. Rogers said. “She has a good connection with the black community, and I do believe we will continue to support her.” Mr. Jealous, who introduced Mr. Sanders to the church, also failed to get the applause the team is accustomed to from crowds of mostly white voters. “There are people who will say to you there is a dreamer who is running for president,” Mr. Jealous said, “and his dreams are so big, y’all shouldn’t dream that big. But in our community, when they tell us not to dream, we say, ‘Yes, we can.’ And so I ask you, ladies gentlemen, are you ready to dream big?” “Amen,” said one woman, Karen Brooker, 46, who later said she was undecided. Mr. Jealous tried again. “No, no, no. Are you ready to dream big?” Mr. Jealous said. “Yes. Fired up,” a few more in the crowd offered. Most continued to eat silently. *Find out what you need to know about the 2016 presidential race <http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/us/elections/election-2016.html> today, and get politics news updates via Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/nytpolitics>, Twitter <https://twitter.com/nytpolitics> and the First Draft newsletter <http://www.nytimes.com/newsletters/politics>.* A version of this article appears in print on February 22, 2016, on page A13 of the New York edition with the headline: In a Black Church in South Carolina, Sanders Struggles to Get an ‘Amen’. 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