Black voters in the South have long been the foundation of Joe Biden’s third bid for the presidency. But Mike Bloomberg has dramatically outspent and out-organized him in Tennessee, making a run at his first primary win.
in community programs in recent years to help revitalize the city. He’s won the endorsements of Mayor Jim Strickland, who also serves as his national campaign co-chair, and former congressman Harold Ford Sr., the state’s first African American congressman and a political legend here who remains deeply influential.
But Michael Harris, chairman of the Shelby County Democratic Party, pushed back on the idea that Bloomberg was making any serious inroads with black voters, arguing that Biden still has strong support in the community even if it is not as visible. To illustrate his point, Harris, who had stepped out of a downtown Memphis restaurant to take a call from a reporter, performed an impromptu man-on-the-street poll, holding his phone up to unidentified people.“Who are you voting for?” Harris said.
Moments later, it was clear why. Taking the pulpit, J. Lawrence Turner, the church’s senior pastor, led the congregation in a brief song of praise and worship ahead of his sermon that morning, in which he urged the flock to “keep praying no matter what.”
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