Strickland campaign post mortem shows tightening of mayor’s race in summer months
Daniel Saharovich (left) and volunteer Cole Perry help set up Jim Strickland's campaign headquarters on July 30, 2019, in the Poplar Plaza shopping center. (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian file)
On The Daily Memphian Politics Podcast, Jim Strickland campaign consultant Steven Reid talked about the blip in polling and said challenger Tami Sawyer never split the African American vote as rival and former Mayor Willie Herenton repeatedly charged during the campaign.
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