We have now seen the four Southern states with sizable African Americans populations — Virginia, North Carolina, Alabama and Tennessee — called for Biden. In some of those states, he’s doing even better with black voters than he did in South Carolina. It was only a couple weeks ago when Sanders was within striking distance of Biden in South Carolina and the black vote was divided between Biden, Sanders and Bloomberg nationally. Likely an important event in helping to consolidate that vote was Rep. James Clyburn’s endorsement of Biden. Clyburn is the most senior African American congressman in the party. In an interview we did with him in Charleston, he came out hard against Sanders, previewing some of Democratic Party’s strategy in the week since.
