Article snippet: Former Vice President MORE (I-Vt.) to make inroads with black voters. Sanders has been well aware of his need to attract support from African Americans, and he’s sought since entering the race to fix a problem that impaired him in 2016, when he ran a tougher than expected primary challenge against MORE. Clinton was greatly helped in her victory by black votes. She won them by more than 70 percent over Sanders. The former secretary of State, New York senator and first lady was a proven commodity to black voters in 2016 who benefitted from the affinity many African Americans held toward her husband, former President Clinton. Biden, who on Sunday appeared at a Baptist church in South Carolina, represents a similar threat to Sanders given the eight years he served as vice president to former President Obama — the nation’s first black president. While Sanders is doing well in polls of white voters and progressives, the African American base of the party has not rallied to his campaign — at least not yet. A Morning Consult poll released last week showed that 47 percent of black women said Biden was their top choice to be the Democratic nominee, while 18 percent said they preferred Sanders. A poll from Quinnipiac University last week found Biden getting the support of 42 percent of nonwhite respondents. Sanders trailed Biden and Sen. MORE (D-Mass.), getting just 7 percent support among nonwhites. It’s possible those numbers to some extent reflect voters' familiarity wi... Link to the full article to read more