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Palmieri on Why Dems Are Elevating ‘White Men’ to Top of Primary Polls: Due to ‘Biases We Still Hold’

‘That makes us gravitate towards men and even white men’

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PALMIERI: “And now, amazingly, we have a lot of great diverse choices that they can consider, but they do seem — when you see women interviewed from the forum they are really focused on issues and they want to hear what people will do to create jobs, they want to hear what people are going to do in racial justice. And like any demographic, they are concerned about issues and things that will affect their own lives. It’s something to see, all three at the top of the polls being led by three white men, though. I have to say, I’m concerned that as somebody who worked for a woman candidate last time, that there’s something  about the sort of biases we still hold about leadership and what that looks like that makes us gravitate towards men and even white men. There is something about how we — this image that we still hold makes it harder for the women candidates who are really great to break through."

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