In Flint, Johnson congratulated the Detroit Tigers on their playoff run, praised Harris for her economic proposals, and then spoke about a specific sliver of the electorate. "Our Black men, we gotta get 'em out to vote," he said. "Kamala's opponent promised a lot of things last time to the Black community that he did not deliver on, and we gotta make sure we help Black men understand that."
Johnson was addressing a concern that has been alternately murmured and shouted in Democratic circles as Election Day nears: that Democrats are vulnerable with one of their most loyal constituencies, African American men. The statistical stalemate that the two major-party candidates have been locked in has led to a kind of obsessive demographic slicing in an effort to predict the election's outcome.
The choice of Johnson, who is a Michigander, to introduce Harris made sense for several reasons. He has been an advocate for people with H.I.V./ AIDS -he has been H.I.V.-positive for more than thirty years- and Harris helped spearhead a Biden Administration effort to end the epidemic by 2030.
In the traumatic wake of the 2016 contest, progressives blamed white women, more than fifty per cent of whom, initial reports alleged, had voted for Donald Trump, compared with forty-three per cent for Hillary Clinton.
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