Southern Democratic candidates say the Biden-Harris ticket could give them a big down-ballot electoral boost in November: “Having a Black woman to be a voice in the room means so much to voters, particularly in the South.”
In Alabama, the pick of Harris has given a glimmer of hope to Jones, who told MSNBC this week that there had been “a ripple of excitement all the way from Mobile to Huntsville" about"Joe’s pick and my friend Kamala Harris.”
“Black women voters have been critical for us in the past and are his biggest base and our most consistent voters,” an aide to Jones’ campaign told NBC News. Ninety-eight percent of Black women — 17 percent of the electorate — voted for Jones in 2017,Minyon Moore, a Democratic strategist who advised Biden on his vice presidential pick, said that the presumptive nominee has long maintained that helping down-ballot Democrats was critical for the fall campaign.
Overall voter turnout also increased in 2016, but mostly due to increased white turnout. Black voter turnout dropped by 7 percent. Loeffler has attacked Warnock and Collins for their work on criminal justice issues, seeking to tie them to Harris.
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