It’s less than half the size of Super Tuesday. But Tuesday’s collection of misfit primaries could prove just as consequential by dealing a fatal blow to Bernie Sanders’ reeling campaign.
In the wake of Joe Biden’s runaway victories across the South, Mississippi is expected to deliver one more blowout win. In 2016, according to exit polls, the Democratic electorate was 71 percent African American — one of Biden’s strongest groups.
Rep. Bennie Thompson endorsed Biden on Thursday, adding the support of a prominent black validator in the state and rounding out his Congressional Black Caucus endorsements to a total of 31. Sanders track record here isn’t promising. In 2016, Hillary Clinton defeated him 83 percent to 17 percent. African American women cast nearly half the vote; Sanders lost them 90-10. And Sanders, who lacks broad support among black Democrats, didn’t help his cause here when he scrapped a Friday campaign event in Jackson to concentrate on beefing up his on-the-ground efforts in Michigan.
In his place, several of the Vermont senator’s black surrogates — including Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba and actor Danny Glover — stumped for him over the weekend, leaning in to his record of voting against the 1994 Crime Bill and his “Thurgood Marshall plan” for public education, which combats racial discrimination in schools.
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