Would be interesting to know what he planned to say.
Asked whether the candidate will eventually deliver the speech, a spokesperson said, “TBD.”
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But a couple hours later, when Sanders stepped to the podium in Flint, he did not give his prepared remarks on race — instead delivering his familiar stump speech, making only brief mention of “a same-old, same-old status quo politics” that, he said, has “failed African-American communities.”
After the event, as the campaign’s press bus idled outside the venue, Sanders communications director Mike Casca told reporters that the candidate scrapped his prepared remarks after discussing the event backstage with panelists, including community leaders in Flint and one of his top supporters, Dr. Cornel West.The crowd in Flint, a majority black city affected by a horrifying lead-water crisis, was mostly white on Saturday.
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