If Sanders is the nominee, he will rely on young Southern blacks to win over their older relatives and friends, who appear to be largely skeptical of him at this point.
The pair of high school seniors skipped class on a Wednesday afternoon to attend a political rally here, and for Bernie Sanders of all people. These Gen Z students are obviously feeling the Bern, but their family members are more traditional Democrats who are supporting Joe Biden in Saturday’s South Carolina primary.
Both teenagers plan to make a few last ditch pitches to their families before Saturday’s crucial primary — but they’re mostly focused on converting all of their voting-age friends and classmates to the cause. Biden leads in the South Carolina polling by virtue of his heavy support among older African-American voters.
Sanders’s appeal to younger voters has a lot to do with his populist message and his cultural cachet, said Addisu Demissie, a Democratic campaign operative who ran the presidential campaign of Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J. “I just talked to my mom this morning,” said Glover, who was also attending the Sanders rally. “She was a Biden supporter, but as we've been watching the debates, she hasn't been feeling like he's been the best fit.”“I think telling our parents that this candidate is going to help us progress,” added Glover. “I think that makes an impact on our parents.
In South Carolina, the Sanders’s campaign re-assigned a team of 10 campus and field organizers from other states to target community colleges, where working-class students are sometimes overlooked by get-out-the-vote efforts. “My parents are more on the moderate side,” Appiah-Ofori said. “So they supported Hillary in 2016. I did my best to try to move them towards Bernie, but it didn't work. They voted for Hillary and then ultimately Hillary lost and Trump got elected and I was devastated.”
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