"Democrats think other people are racist, and ... they won't vote, I think, for an African-American"

I think, as a number of people have said, identity politics plays well on Twitter, not in campaigns. And Beto O’Rourke and Kamala Harris were the two most identity politics candidates.

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I also think it’s just indisputably true this year that being an African-American is a disadvantage, not because Democrats voted — Democrats think other people are racist, and that they won’t vote, I think, for an African-American.

I think that’s — I think that’s not the whole explanation, a piece the explanation, for why Cory Booker, who I think has run a very good campaign, has not done better and why she has not done better.

And they’re left with this white — an all-white debate state…

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