Maryland Democrat’s leaked email casts doubt over Black candidates’ electability

Barbara Goldberg Goldman wrote in her email that three previous attempts to elect a Black governor had failed

Doubts about the electability of Black candidates should have no place in America in 2022", a contender for the Democratic nomination for governor in Maryland said, after an email from a party official and donor expressing such doubt went public.

The email from Barbara Goldberg Goldman, deputy treasurer of the state Democratic party, was obtained by Axios. The news site noted the disparity between such doubts and Democratic reliance on Black voters in states across the US, not least in the election of Joe Biden as president.