Cory Booker poked fun at Pete Buttigieg's maligned racial justice plan by amplifying a satirical article written by the parody website 'The Onion,' joking that the weirdest part of the headline was that he had never been to Kenya.
also uncovered a list of 400 South Carolina residents whom the Buttigieg campaign said supported the Douglass Plan and who later said that was mischaracterized by Buttigieg's campaign as their support for his candidacy. Johnnie Cordero, chair of the state party's Black Caucus, called the use of his name on the plan"entirely presumptuous" and said he was never expressed support for it.
The picture was removed, and Buttigieg's campaign manager, Sean Savett, apologized for the gaffe while adding that using stock photos on political websites is a"standard practice across many campaigns." Kamala Harris, too, has spoken out against Buttigieg's gaffe."I'm sure someone agrees that was a big mistake... he's going to have to answer for that... I don't have words to describe it," Harrisat a press conference."They deserve to be represented not as a stock photo, but as who they actually are."
While Mayor Buttigieg's poll numbers have improved in Iowa and New Hampshire, his polling with black Americans remains low, with just 2 percent of surveyed African Americans saying they'd vote for Buttigieg in a recent
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