S.C. Dem Party Chair: Sanders Has to Make Wall St. Reform Real for Black Voters in S.C.

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MITCHELL: "You have not endorsed anyone, your mentor Jim Clyburn has clown his support behind Hillary Clinton. Is Bernie Sanders taking too much for granted in leaving here? Should he stay here and campaign more actively?"
HARRISON: "I hope he hasn’t taken south Carolina for granted. You know, it’s important."
MITCHELL: "Taking for granted that he doesn’t have a chance of winning here." 
HARRISON: "You know, South Carolina is the gateway to the rest of the south. We have S.E.C. Tuesday or super Tuesday that’s coming up on March 1st where there are a number of southern states that will be for grasp. Well, the message that he has here is the message that he has to make sure resonates in those states like Georgia and Texas and Arkansas. And if he doesn’t, if he doesn’t fine tune that message here where he has the best ground operation in the south in terms of his operation, then he’s going to have trouble in some of those other southern states. If I were him, I would be spending as much time as I possibly can here in south Carolina figuring out what works, what doesn’t work and then replicate that in the other states."
MITCHELL: "According to our latest poll, she has a 40% head start, big lead among African-Americans. But in all of the states so far, he has really done well with younger voters. So, they’re both competing on college campuses. She will be with some sorority sisters this afternoon. What about younger African-Americans, are they more in tune to Bernie Sanders than their parents are?"
HARRISON: "I think they’re more open over his message. I think when we have the result on Saturday we’ll see that younger African-Americans probably will flock towards Bernie Sanders. I think that is an Achilles heel for the Clinton campaign. It’s something they’re working on and trying to improve."
MITCHELL: "What about his message, his main message is income disparity, which is of course a critical problem for all of the lower income people here in the state and also Wall Street, wall Street reform, her speeches, she won’t release her transcripts from the Goldman Sachs speeches and finance reform. Are those issues that African-Americans in particular will respond to?"
HARRISON: "The most important demographic for Bernie Sanders here is African-American women, particularly middle age, my mom’s age, my grandmother’s age. And though the wage disparities and all are important things, he has to make those things tangible and real for those folks. Talking about Wall Street reform and CEOs making millions of dollars, that’s great. It’s great for D.C., but it’s not great for the people who live in the corner of shame here in South Carolina who are just concerned about how they put food on the table, how to clothe their kids. So he has to make that real. He can’t just tell us about it, he has to show it and demonstrate that. And we saw last night in the forum that Hillary Clinton did a little of that showing by making it real, bringing anecdotes to illustrate the points she wanted to make. That is the turn of the corner that Bernie Sanders has to make over the course of the next few days and weeks as we move from South Carolina to some of the other southern states."
MITCHELL: "Jamie Harrison, great to see you."
HARRISON: "Thank you, Andrea."
>> Thank you very much.