A top Hillary Clinton ally claimed that Bernie Sanders is ignoring black voters in his most recent campaign ad, “America.”
“From this ad it seems black lives don’t matter much to Bernie Sanders,” Brock told the Associated Press, adding that the ad was a “significant slight to the Democratic base” and created a “bizarre” image of America.
The ad in question harkens back to the roots of Sanders’ campaign, an unlikely democratic socialist bid launched among Ben and Jerry’s trucks in Vermont. It features a Simon and Garfunkel song, millennials in coffee shops, baby goats, but very little racial diversity. While the campaign’s final ad before the primaries is supposed to depict rural communities and small towns, such as those found Iowa and New Hampshire, of the hundreds of people shown, the people are overwhelmingly white.
While Sanders’ has recently pulled ahead of Clinton in both New Hampshire and Iowa, the former secretary of state still leads the polls among African-American and Latino voters. Brock’s comments about Sanders come as the Clinton has upped her attacks against the Vermont senator.
