Black voters, college-educated whites powered Joe Biden to Texas victory
During the Dallas rally Monday, where Joe Biden consolidated the centrist wing of the Democratic Party, Lola Wilson performed James Weldon Johnson’s “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” a song commonly referred to as the black national anthem.
A few black women in the crowd waved their hands, but many didn’t get the symbolism and what it conveyed about Biden’s dramatic resurgence in the Democratic presidential contest.
“Facing the rising sun of our new day begun,” Wilson belted out. “Let us march on 'til victory is won.”
On Tuesday, the former Vice President stunned rival Bernie Sanders in Texas, winning the popular vote and likely coming away with more delegates. Like his breakaway win in South Carolina, Biden’s Texas victory was powered by his dominant performance among African American voters. And he nearly matched Sanders with white voters, many of them concerned that the Vermont senator was too extreme.
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