Black voters in South Carolina on Friday criticized Sen. Kamala Harris’s (D., Calif.) now defunct presidential campaign, saying it assumed too much about the black vote and lacked “consistency.”
“I found Kamala Harris abrasive from the beginning,” one voter said on CNN’s New Day. “I thought that she assumed to have achieved the black vote, which when you assume which way my support should go, it shows that you have commodified my interest.”
Another voter lacked confidence in Harris’s leadership, insisting that “if you can’t lead your campaign team, you may not be able to lead the country.” Others criticized the broader assumption that black voters prefer black candidates—as one voter put it, “it’s almost like you’re saying we don’t have our own ideas and views, which we do, beyond race.” – READ MORE