{"id":8300,"date":"2019-07-08T23:23:35","date_gmt":"2019-07-09T03:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2019\/07\/08\/importance-black-voters-democratic-candidates-danielle-vinson\/"},"modified":"2022-11-06T19:38:07","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T00:38:07","slug":"importance-black-voters-democratic-candidates-danielle-vinson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/importance-black-voters-democratic-candidates-danielle-vinson\/","title":{"rendered":"The importance of South Carolina&#8217;s black voters to Democratic candidates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NBC News recently followed former vice president Joe Biden as he campaigned in South Carolina and quoted Furman Professor of Politics and International Affairs <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.furman.edu\/academics\/politics-and-international-affairs\/meet-our-faculty\/Pages\/Danielle-Vinson.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Danielle Vinson<\/a> about what winning \u2014 or not winning \u2014 the state&#8217;s black vote can indicate about someone&#8217;s chances of securing the Democratic Party&#8217;s nomination for president.<\/p>\n<p class=\"endmarkEnabled\">\u201cSouth Carolina is important because it has a significant African American population, and it can signal which candidates are most appealing to African Americans and Southern Democrats,\u201d Vinson told NBC News. \u201cGiven how much of a head start [Biden] has in the state with name recognition and goodwill from voters who tend to be more moderate Democrats, if he can\u2019t win here, it will seriously undermine his chances of winning the nomination.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"endmarkEnabled\">Polls showed a significant drop in Biden&#8217;s support among black voters after he was criticized for comments he made about working with segregationist senators and was attacked for his stance on busing by Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., during one of last month&#8217;s debates. The full NBC News story <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2020-election\/biden-s-post-debate-south-carolina-support-strong-not-certain-n1027196\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">can be read here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NBC News recently followed former vice president Joe Biden as he campaigned in South Carolina and quoted Furman Professor of Politics and International Affairs Danielle Vinson about what winning \u2014 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-in-the-news","category-politics-and-international-affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}