Article snippet: MORE is making an aggressive play for African American voters in the South, part of a campaign strategy to ride his front-runner status to an early Democratic primary victory in 2020. Biden, who served as vice president for eight years under MORE, the nation’s first black president, made white supremacists and neo-Nazis marching in Charlottesville, Va., the focal point of his campaign launch video Thursday. He’s spent a significant time traveling to South Carolina and other southern states over the years; he’s hiring a diverse group of minority staffers, including Symone Sanders; and has been calling and texting with black lawmakers on Capitol Hill, especially those representing African American communities in the South, trying to win their support. While most lawmakers are keeping their powder dry, Biden on Thursday wrapped up the endorsements of former Sen. Carol Moseley Braun (D-Ill.), the nation’s first African American female senator, and Rep. MORE (D-La.), the former chairman of the 55-member Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), who got a phone call from Biden on Wednesday. Those early supporters say Biden is in the strongest position to take on MORE, whose policies and fiery rhetoric on immigration and other race-based issues have sparked a backlash from minority voters and lawmakers — many of whom deem him a racist. Those tensions were particularly pronounced following the white nationalist marches in Charlottesville in 2017, when Trump said there were “very... Link to the full article to read more