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Source: Des Moines Register
Jennifer Jacobs, jejacobs@dmreg.com 2:40 p.m. CDT September 3, 2015
Bernie Sanders says he's at a disadvantage with black voters in the Democratic presidential race because Hillary Clinton has made such in-roads with them.
"I am running against ... a candidate," Sanders told The Des Moines Register's editorial board Thursday, "whose husband, who I will also not mention, but was a former president of the United States, was very popular with the African-American community. Period. And certainly that popularity will benefit Hillary Clinton."
Sanders, a U.S. senator from Vermont, said Clinton as campaigned vigorously for the presidency in 2008, she reached out to African-American leaders around the country.
"That's simply true. She has been doing this for years," he said. "So we're starting kind of way, way back."
Read more: http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/elections/presidential/caucus/2015/09/03/bernie-sanders-hillary-clinton-african-american-voters-iowa-caucuses/71650218/
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Some more interesting quotes in that interview/article.