Black Dems in Vastly White Iowa Poised to Play 2020 Role

In Iowa, one of the whitest states in the nation, more than 100 black Democrats who expect to attend the 2020 caucuses crammed into a tiny community center in the capital city to position themselves as a force in the most wide-open presidential campaign in a generation. "There is hope! There is hope, I tell you, the same hope that Barack Obama brought us,'' Jamie Woods, former chairwoman of the Iowa Democratic Black Caucus, implored the cheering group last month.  In...

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