By Holly Bailey and Holly Bailey National Political Reporter Email Bio Follow David Weigel David Weigel National reporter covering politics Email Bio Follow April 24 at 10:31 PM HOUSTON — The groans erupted halfway through Bernie Sanders’s appearance Wednesday at a presidential candidates’ forum sponsored by She the People, a group that aims to drive up voter participation among women of color.
Sanders at one point mentioned his long record on civil rights, but it did little to mollify the crowd. Wednesday’s event, billed by organizers as the first-ever presidential forum for women of color, took place at Texas Southern University, a historically black institution in Houston, one of the most rapidly diversifying cities in the country.
Sen. Kamala D. Harris , who has faced criticism from some liberals who think she was too tough as San Francisco’s district attorney, promised to pardon low-level drug offenders if she wins the White House.
NeverBernie
Challenges? How about this unpatriotic piece of crap just drops out now?
Bernie’s diversity problem
I wonder what they were hoping to hear. What specific policies are minority women hoping to promote that candidates like Bernie are not?
He got what he put out in the universe. Fk him!!!
Because he sucks.
ZerlinaMaxwell Bet you just love that you know like I said before it's one thing to hate on the man if the policies doesn't support what we all are trying to accomplish which I just feel like this is just being petty we don't get nowhere being petty like I said before you need to grow up
Sanders (& Buttigieg) focus on economics irritates some women and/or POC. But is policy on those issues bad or is the problem just surface level? Maybe his strategy effective which must be priority. And progressive econ particularity good for disproportionately poor minorities.
Sanders is insane
Bunch of rich or upper-middle class, centrist, beltway-insiders, minority women who will vote for neoliberal Joe Biden or Kamala Harris in 2020.
He’s a fraud
Bezos shills say what? jvgraz jimmy_dore
let me guess... Dave Weigel? hack find a new career or go shine Bezo’s shoes you lap dog!
ZerlinaMaxwell He’s uncomfortable praising women and fighting for black and brown folks
He got what he deserved. The man is all about stump speeches and spousing platitudes by adding the word “FREE” to every sentence. Where are the policy details? I’m glad the ladies are boxing him into a corner.
How do plan to lead us against white nationalists? Rant against Trump. Reasked. Answer. I marched with MLK. Boos. Then refuses to answer the question. Granted, it's a hard question, but that's why we hire a president.
He was arrogant and dismissive as usual.
Sorry to bring the bad news, but there is no rise in white supremacy except in the minds of the media hoaxers. There is, however, a rise in identity politics on the Left. BernieSanders SenWarren PeteButtigieg jimmy_dore
Looks like some are still bitter that Clinton rightly lost the elections for being an out of touch neoliberal. The Russian hysteria hasn’t worked, so back to blaming Sanders. Get over yourselves! Even Obama will get a tough reception at minority women’s event.
He got the reception he deserved. He spoke to a group of black women voters and didn’t have answers for the questions everyone knew they’d ask. He was patriarchal, patronizing, dismissive, & hoping to coast on the same stale slogans. He earned that “tough reception.”
A woman from the audience shouted (come on), and the pile of shit decided to spin it and write a whole article about it. Haha, pathetic! He’s the front runner, suck it!
Feeling the Bern....
weslata EtanaDisasa yihenin iko new yemilachihu. Ye'partyu base nachew.
Hardly...
Who owns the Washington Post again? I forget.
Bernie2020
See right through his lies.
Biden gets touch reception from every single person i’ve ever met
Because women don't need healthcare, Medicare for all isn't their thing?... oh wait.
Go away Bernie Sanders. We don’t want your
Wow he gets a wake up that people are not stupid anymore? I can’t wait until geeky fingers starts his campaign trail please do report 😂
lol, he literally has a low favorable rating with white people.
I heart this thread
No one cares except ninaturner who can’t fathom that some black women can think for themselves and aren’t enamored with Sanders.
He received exactly the reception he earned.
Bernie is gonna ride that 'I marched with Martin Luther King' horse all through this election. Yes, that was great. And yes, I appreciate him doing that, but that's not going to automatically get you the black vote. News Flash Bernie: it takes MORE than that to get our vote.
“WaPo sensationalizes headlines to get clicks! You won’t believe what they do next...” Clickbait mongers go to a special place in hell.
'Long record on civil rights' 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Excellent! 👏🏻✊🏻✊🏻✊🏻
We Kamala Harris lied about her time as Atty Gen. Saying no one was ever arrested on her truancy policy, when in fact she created a perp walk and had a critically ill woman dragged out of her home in cuffs!
Gee I'm shocked. 🙄
POC don’t like him & frankly neither does this white girl
Good. He deserves it. He skated through the last election because every news outlet was too busy creaming over her emails to press him on policy. Now he will be vetted. And fail. Because he’s a fucking fraud.
No surprise here. Good news all the same!
Just so you know most Democrats don’t like this man. Not one iota, he is not a Democrat.
An old rich white guy wasn't received well at minority womens event? Who would've guessed that?🤦♂️
He is an idiot that his time has past
He won't coddle any particular group of voters. He's not a bigot by any means. He will help the poor and middle class. SO WILL ELIZABETH WARREN 💪💪
Vote for Joe!!!!💙🇺🇸💙🇺🇸💙🇺🇸💙
Don’t like him. He’s a creep. He’s why we have Trump. NeverBernie
I love that the emphasis is on the reception and not his failure to prepare.
According to my mom and aunts, AA women 60+ who don't twitter/FB will not vote for Bernie. They are Biden (Obama VP) and Beto (JFK memories) voters. 😐
If was any kind of newspaper, they'd start digging into the way that Bernie Sanders & Tulsi Gabbard were both set up at that Womens March event. Then keep digging into the rampant known anti-Semitism at Womens' March. Then question if the two could be related.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣😂😂🤣🤣 fraudBernie
rolandsmartin
“Tough reception” is a euphemism for “slammed” “hammered” and “bashed” - all descriptors that would have been used had HillaryClinton received a similar response.
WE.WANT.A.BLACK.AGENDA
BernieSanders is not a Democrat. Dems vote for Dems (unless we get stuck with him). Joe Biden/ Barack Obama
The collective sigh when he said he marched with MLK was magnificent.
This is what happens to front runners. They face scrutiny. It was fun watching him deal with that for the first time. It also proves he’s unelectable. You cannot win without women of color. NeverBernie
Too bad, so sad. Bye bye Bernie.
Its the Democrats way of starting to undermine Bernie. But the half has not yet been told. This is going to be a rough Primary, and an even rougher General election. No doubt.
I suspect that people who boo over his support for MLK are not exactly representative of minority opinion, no matter what they claim.
He is an ineffectual.. unprepared lawmaker. Most people can see through him as nothing but a talker. Never a doer.
ZerlinaMaxwell What matters is what you bring. Bernie is bullet point policy He's rarely pushed for more bc Ds afraid he'll flip the table if he doesn't win the primary He was finally pressed. He fell short. He can learn from that & do better or tell ppl to get off his lawn
Listen to the base of the Dempcratic party.. when they tell you no Bernie.. listen. When they tell you no mediocre white dudes.. listen. And support them. Vote like Black Women.
That tends to happen when you don't answer the question asked, go into your usual spiel that everyone has already heard and then rely on something done over 50 years ago to counter the upset.
mikes_booh ⬆⬆⬆ Did they ask Bernie about his ties to the NRA ?
marcushjohnson Bernie sat next to Rosa Parks
morgfair He basically walked in there and 'all live matter'd' the whole thing.
He tried the “I marched with Martin Luther King” and it went down the way you would expect in a room full of strong, brilliant WOC.
Alt headline: Bernard fails miserably at a forum of Black Women bc he has no clue abt their challenges
Pretty sure this old MF can do better than what trump doing !!
lauferlaw Good. We don't need Old Ranty White Dude with Russian ties 2.0, let's go with someone not compromised by a hostile dictatorship.
ZerlinaMaxwell Are ya'll going to start believing us now Some of us have been saying for years ..Black people aren't having NONE OF BERNIE SANDERS!! PERIODT! Throw Mayor Pete in there too!!
Harris and Warren received standing ovations for their thoughtful, focused, intelligent answers. There's far too much at stake for anything less.
He thought Ah, they're just women. His azz wasn't ready. NeverBernie
ZerlinaMaxwell I don't know if it is his intent, but I often get an 'All Lives Matter' vibe from Bernie. I question his ability to admit that there are groups who have it tougher. This could signal a reluctance to address race issues head on. Strange signal given Bernie's history.
He went straight to the “I marched with MLK once” bullshit (along with hundreds of thousands of people). What’s next? “I never forgot about Dre”?
That event was full of plants anyway
He will stay because he needs campaign dollars to buy more copies of his book.
shaunking care to discuss the reality of Bernie’s standing with WOC?
He showed up,tried to give his stump speech and failed miserably. The crowd called him out for what he is, dishonest and arrogant.
Bernie Sanders still thinks like a white liberal in the 1960s. They certainly helped, but they could also be patronizing, and demand 'tolerance.' Which is different than full inclusion. That was great in the 1960s, but we're beyond that now, and young minorities see it.
tomwatson Sanders is now being held accountable for no clear policy or plans. This is how he should have had his feet held to the fire during his ‘16 bid. No more passes...no more rhetoric.
tomwatson He reminds me of Yosemite Sam
tomwatson BernieSanders IS NOT A DEMOCRAT!
I am a constituent of SenSanders. 1) Bernie has no significant legislative accomplishments after 29 years as an elected official 2) Bernie minimizes the impact of systemic racism on economic and educational inequality Bernie will not be the nominee. SheThePeople2020
tomwatson NeverEverBernie
An event that happened 56yrs ago is not going to win us over.A LOT has happened since then. He’s had 30+ years in office. WTH has he done with his time?
Headline: Bernard is still as tone deaf as ever and the Black Women at ShethePeople2020 weren’t havin’ it
So SenSanders thought he could slide by with his platitudes. He'll have to work to earn respect.
SchMieke There's a way for Bernie to fix this. But he won't. His pride and ego get in the way. He is being held accountable for neglecting black voters in 2016. And he knows this, and still will not address issues that are specific to black people. So screw him.
Berni Sander s is 77 years old. -He will be in his 80’s ...soon. Elizabeth Warren is 69 years old. Kamala Harris is 54 years old. Amy Klobuchar is 58 years old. And many more candidates. Pls, no more old white men, honestly, we can do better
Wrong color Bernie. Not woke.
Bernie should he! It’s way past time for a woman in the WH!
I thought all the polls showed that black people just LUUUVED him 😒 Even when she showed majority white people at his rallys someone would prop up a poll that BS was doing well with blacks. 🤔. They show all the skewed polls they want can’t make me believe it
Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden will both have HEALTH problems if they campaign the rest of this year and all next year. When in our history did we have people running for President TWO YEARS IN ADVANCE?!? The Democrats are delusional-crazy. They have become the Communist Party.
Rightfully so
Intersectionality—the belief that your racism and sexism is ok.
Democrats are gonna lose again if they don’t pick him
Bernie is for equality. Toxic femininity seems to think that the goal is no longer equal but special, better. It’s neither. HRC lost, she was a shitty candidate. Move TF on.
He should totally pack it up after one rally sandbagged him. 🙄
Geechie4Kamala Finally!
To all you progressive lib Burnie supporters, you are being stiffed by the swamp Biden supporting media, notice all the bad Burnie press all of a sudden just like Trump gets and you will be stiffed again by DNC super delegates supporting Biden. Don't be surprised!
As they say in AZ, Adios Bernie!
those people got Trump elected by supporting HillaryClinton in the primary
That whole things was set up to do that to him. He more than likely expected it,sadly,and he went anyway. Says everything about his character,his desire to at least try. The treatment he got doesn’t say a damn thing good about the people in attendance. Not a damn thing.
PoliticsVillage interesting
Bernie like Trump refused to condemn violence by white supremacists. This from a man who can't stop talking about the white working class. It's more than time to admit that Bernie is a bigot.
Imagine WaPo taking a break from their Bernie smearfest. Tough luck finding real issues to attack him with so each time they go for opinions &conjectures. Bernie (honorary woman) was fighting for every minority group &the economically disadvantaged long before it was fashionable
Calling that a “tough reception” is like calling Leona Helmsley “slightly testy”
overreaction by some people in the crowd and the media as usual. sensationalism sells apparently.
“Jeff Bezos still doesn’t want to pay taxes.”
Thank goodness. Vet him please!
daveweigel Seriously? Video or it didn't happen. Show me.
Who could have predicted this guy would flop at a women's event?
WOC have received tough reception from Bernie since 2015.
I give props to Bernie for showing up in the first place,, to a hate filled audience, that clearly despises white people.
lsgordon Rough week for the sandman
'Get off my lawn!'
yall are still rly out here trying to speak 'bernie is racist' into existence huh
Victor_Cass
Take a hint. Go away Bernie.
Bernie tried to give his standard stump speech to SheThePeople2020 instead of answering questions, and the crowd was not about to let him get away with that. So his 'tough reception' was more than deserved - something your headline elides.
Bernie Trolls are about to stampede this feeds with all kind of Bernie good deeds. You know he freed the slaves, sat next to Rosa Park and actually MLK was walking in Bernie’s march. Finally Bernie is really Malcolm X.
cue the 90% white male cult members of this 80 year old grifter. Some black women 'from the confederacy' bood him and he reinded them he 'marched with Martin Luther king'
A bunch of Democrat donors and other consultants gave him a tough reception? This is news...why? 🤔 Your second part is speculation and has no evidence whatsoever.
Not ONE Candidate can Match this-19 Examples of Bernie Sanders’ Powerful Record on CivilRights and HumanRights Since the 1950s Bernie2020 NOEqual
Why Bernie Sanders Cares More About Women’s Issues Than Hillary Clinton Bernie2020
Black women are the canary in the coal mine. Ignore them at your peril.
and?
Too bad Joe Biden wasn't at SheThePeople2020 - maybe next year.
Bernie should be tailoring his message to explain why his policies specifically benefit women, people of color, etc but he's relying on his 2016 refrains and it's not working. Wagging his finger at the audience is a bad look too.
Called it, old dusty commies aren’t intersectional enough for the left.
She the people is an organization set up to get Kamala Harris elected president, and kamala still managed to get outshined by Warren.
lmao
This would be old news in 2015, but what ev.
As well he should. neverBernie MagnitskyAct (voted against) Deripaska (didn’t bother to vote)
Excellent.
lyn_cade Bernard Sanders sounded like an aloof, entitled, buffoon on that stage.
Good
apexnerd ‘Tough reception’? He crashed and burned
With all due respect it’s because he’s behind the times.
FakeNews
Bernie’s not a bad guy…but he’s frankly too much of an OldStraightWhiteMan to be what America needs in a POTUS in 2020 He’s doing a good job of working for UniversalHealthcare & FreeCollege in Congress (though he doesn’t do anything about StudentLoans) Keep him in Congress
garychun If Bernie Sanders had gotten a 'tough reception' (i.e., vetting) from the media in 2016, he wouldn't even be running now. Start challenging him & we might forgive you for your part in creating this circus.
Plants have been coming to his rally’s for along time.
I have black friends...
TheResistance Resist NeverAgain FBR BlueWave StillWithHer BlueWave2020 Persist..are mostly DNC Corporate operatives attacking Bernie Sanders and his ideas.
how about this you guys take a good thing and spin it 180 to suit your narrative...thats not news that is propaganda and Bernie almost never mentions his walk with MLK.....
Dying at his 'I marched with MLK...' reminder. Bernie bought the '911 is a Joke' cassingle—but the album? A step too far.
If Bernie were honest when asked about the 'rise in white supremacy' who would have explained that it isn't happening.
The women in the front were so fucking rude. Heckling & shouting while he was trying to talk 🤦♂️
Why would the WaPo base their analysis on actual recent polling data that shows Sanders has more support among POC than the other candidates when they can just cite dubious anecdotal evidence that supports their establishment agenda instead? Poll denialism is a real thing.
You people never stop amazing me w/ your incredible bias against all things progressive! Go ahead, trash Bernie, because progressives will rally around him even more :). Go ahead and screw him out of the nomination too, because you’ll lose the progressive vote in a heartbeat!
It was a Hillary Fail pity party.
lauferlaw It was the SHEThePEOPLES👠👀 Event not minority event Traitor👈🏾😡
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
At some point minorities will realize the democrats are the worst thing that has ever happened to them. Look at big cities, generational dependence on government, corruption by city leaders, all at their expense.
Both the NAACP and the NHLA (National Hispanic Leadership Agenda) have given Sanders 100% voting scores during his tenure in the Senate. Earns a D- from the NRA.
After that centrist-stacked CNN Town Hall, full of loaded questions for Bernie, and soft balls for the others; how can anyone takes these things seriously?
In 1963, Bernie Sanders participated in MLK’s Civil Rights March. One of only 2 sitting US Senators to have heard MLK’s “I have a Dream Speech” in person in the march on Washington, DC.
Former student Bernie organize for the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Led the first ever civil rights sit-in in Chicago history to protest segregated housing !!!!
I like Bernie, as well as others, but on the CNN Town Hall he froze me when he said rapist in prison should be allowed to vote on women's issues. I will vote blue no matter who, but he definitely moved to the bottom of my wish list.
Como será la problemática y la desesperanza en Colombia, que hoy tengo que decir: B. Sanders, salve usted a nuestra patria...
They don't like him, with good reason. He doesn't even acknowledge race as a legitimate issue. It's all about class war. Nothing else matters.
It was a dc thinktank event. 😂
The first half of your tweet is reporting, the second half is speculation and guessing. Just the facts ma'am, just the facts.
Black women are America’s greatest hope. They see through cons like Bernie and they suffer his bs.
lauferlaw Personally, I’m voting for whichever Dem wins the nomination, and I refuse to participate in ganging up on the others I not supporting. Bad actors are out there looking for that kind of activity to exploit for their own purposes.
The tough reception Bernie received, possibly the first that he did not like, but it is just the beginning, they will get worst, which is natural for a communist.
Dave Weasel .
African-American women have never been wrong about a candidate. 😀
PelosiSquadFive Black Women are smart and they don't want BernieSanders rt
He wins women in every poll but go on about a conference of upper middle class women that worshipped Clinton in 2016.
Finally, Bern will face some accountability karma.
Poor Bernie... Bernie is a bit hard-of-hearing and thought this was the 'Oy vey the People' forum....
The women of color will come back to his side when they see his record on women's rights & minority issues!
The Globalist DNC hard at work, Remember Trump supporters we get him through the Primary's and win it all and get to fk the DNC while doing it.... It's a WIN WIN.
'Tough reception'? More like: 'He was unprepared and signalled an inability to recognize and address his own glaring weaknesses with women and POC from 2016.'
I guess people still want the orange man in the office.
Good. He turned out to be an utter embarrassment at _shethepeople event.
Well deserved 'though' reception. No way is he winning WOC.
He's learned nothing, hasn't grown, and refuses to adapt. Sound like anyone we know?
SenSanders is a rich man. When last did he have to worry about where his next meal will come from?
DNC is pulling every stops to derail Sanders campaign.
Good!
Bernie2020 TaxTheRich his campaign is about justice for the common person.
Deservedly do when all you’ve got to show for yourself is marching with Dr. King. Really?
The venn diagram of 'hillary clinton dead enders' and 'she the people' attendees is a perfect circle and a vanishingly small percentage of the electorate. The polls all say he's the frontrunner among candidates actually running. Lots of women and POC in his base.
“I was actually at the March on Washington with Dr. King— as somebody who actively supported Jesse Jackson’s campaign, as one of the few white elected officials to do so in ’88 — I have dedicated my life to the fight against racism....”Sanders said. That prompted audible groans.
FYI BernieSanders is not a effing Democrat
This wasn't a 'minority women's event,' it was an establishment sham set up to make bad progressives look better than they are. These may be WOC, but they don't care about women or minorities, they care about $$$.
FakeNews Every Dem is going to get a tough reception. The party of INFANTICIDE and ILLEGALS is not going well with America!
Oh you silly phony-baloney Kremlin backed candidate 😑😐
Bernie is not the enemy. Trump is. I am going with Biden in the primary, but I am not going to take shots at people that might very well be the nominee. Bernie will follow the Constitution and law.
Women haven't won yet and irritating me isn't going to help you
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