'If there's one script from 2016 that Bernie Sanders wants to flip in 2020, it's the one on how he just doesn't resonate with a wide range of black voters as much as his rivals do,' writes BrandonTensley | Analysis
Nowhere will the senator from Vermont face a greater reckoning on this score than in South Carolina, where a majority of the Democratic electorate is black and where, four years ago, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton beat him in the primary by almost 50 points -- a stratospheric margin.
"Sanders has been selling the same product his entire life," Allen Kagler, 22, who said he's knocked on"maybe 7,000 doors" for the senator, told CNN, referring to Sanders' broad message of social justice."But it's about how you angle it toward specific communities.
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