Sanders seeks to avoid another stumble with black SC voters

23/1/2019 11:38

                A day after speaking at a Martin Luther King Jr. Day rally in the state capital on Monday, Sanders stayed through Tuesday for three more events in which African-American audiences were receptive to a message that hewed largely to his 2016 Democratic presidential platform. But the Vermont independent got personal even as he pitched free college tuition and a higher minimum wage, recounting repeatedly that he joined King's 1963 March on Washington and calling the late civil rights leader a "major political influence on my thinking."
        
        Asked Tuesday at historically black Benedict College about marching with King, Sanders joked with students that "this kind of dates me a little bit" and added that it "was one of the important days in my life."