Kweisi Mfume is making great progress in his Democratic primary race in spite of a lack of support from the party establishment.
Washington insider Vernon Jordan remembers the deafening silence from the Maryland Democratic Party when Kweisi Mfume announced his bid for the U.S. Senate more than a year ago.
Jordan, a civil rights pioneer and Democratic Party power broker, watched as Mfume's campaign was cold-shouldered by party leaders, decried in a series of negative headlines and disdained by a skepticism that the former Baltimore congressman and NAACP president could win.Sixteen months later and less than two months before the Sept. 12 Democratic primary, Mfume's campaign has evolved from stillborn to insurgent. Mfume's campaign, still lagging in fund-raising and infrastructure compared to his main Democratic opponent, U.S. Rep. Benjamin L. Cardin, has been jolted anew by a recent Washington Post poll that has him leading Cardin by six points.
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