New York Times article: “You are starting to see cracks in [Hilary’s South Carolina] firewall,” says Bernie’s spokesperson, Simone Sanders.
Justin Bamberg, SC NC State Representative and lawyer to the family of police shooting victim Water Scott, has just switched his endorsement from Clinton to Sanders.
He said, he didn’t think he’d given Sanders a fair shake at first, because he was an unknown quantity. After listening to him debate and give speeches, his mind started to change. But the real tipping point came when the two spoke one on one for twenty minutes after MLK day, about the Walter Scott shooting, criminal justice reform, and other matters.
He’s talking to his friends in the state house.
“What I got from him was not a presidential candidate talking to a state representative, or an old white man talking to a young black guy,” Mr. Bamberg said. “What I got from him was a man talking to a man about things that they are passionate about, and that was the tipping point for me.”
It’s the Sanders Effect, perfected over decades of retail politics in Vermont.