Dem Suggests Race Factored Into Obama Senate Endorsement
Democrats should not be making assumptions about identity politics, this year or any other year.
But Sanchez on Friday said race may have had something to do with the endorsement.
“I think they have, what he said they have, is a friendship of many years. She is African American, as is he,” Sanchez said in an interview on Univision 19 in Sacramento.
When initially responding to the endorsement, Sanchez accused Obama of being part of the nation’s “entrenched political establishment.”
Harris’ campaign called the comments “disappointing.”
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