He says that like it’s a good thing.
Via WaPo:
Eric H. Holder Jr., the nation’s first African American attorney general, said black voters can’t afford to let “wistfulness” about the excitement of the historic 2008 and 2012 elections keep them from the polls this year. He has endorsed Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, with whom he served in President Obama’s Cabinet, and he spent the weekend stumping for her in South Carolina, where black voters make up more than half of the Democratic primary electorate.
The Palmetto State, which will hold its primary on Feb. 27, was flooded with Democrats this week because of Sunday night’s presidential debate.
Holder, who stepped down last year and has returned to private practice, was in Charleston on Saturday to attend the First in the South Dinner, held by the South Carolina Democratic Party, and later campaigned with Clinton at a popular annual fish fry hosted by Rep. James E. Clyburn. He sat down to talk with Post Politics on Sunday afternoon, ahead of the Democratic debate, and discussed why he thinks Clinton is best suited to “continue the great work that President Obama and his administration did.” This interview has been edited for length.
What do you say to black voters who say they are not as excited about this year’s election as they were about the last two?
“I think what people have to understand is that what we have to do is protect the Obama legacy. We’ve made really substantial progress in the last eight years — it’ll be eight years at the end of 2016 — and the question is who is best situated to protect that legacy and not let the progress that we have made get rolled back. And there is no question that there are going to be attempts to roll back the Affordable Care Act, they sent [President Obama] a bill the week before last that he had to veto. There will certainly be efforts to counter the executive actions that he’s taken on immigration issues, when it comes to gun safety issues and his foreign policy.