Clinton Defends Obama Legacy and Jabs Sanders in Harlem Speech
- Democratic candidate seeks to solidify black voter support
- Clinton accuses Republicans of using veiled racial language
Clinton: Many Republicans Talk in Coded, Racial Language
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Hillary Clinton sought to solidify support among black voters with a speech Tuesday in which she suggested there’s a racial element behind Republicans’ plans to block President Barack Obama from nominating a U.S. Supreme Court justice and questioned the depth of her rival Bernie Sanders’s commitment to minority causes.
Clinton, who spoke at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in New York, is looking to minority voters, particularly blacks and Hispanics, to form a political bulwark against a surge by Sanders for the Democratic nomination. At the same time, she’s looking to energize her party for the general election with attacks on Republicans.