'Wrong' for Barack Obama to 'lecture' Black men for not supporting Kamala Harris: Ex-Bernie Sanders adviser

A erstwhile Bernie Sanders run advisor slammed former President Barack Obama Thursday for calling retired Black men who bash not enactment Vice President Kamala Harris.

"Why are Black men being lectured to?" erstwhile Democratic Ohio authorities Sen. Nina Turner said connected CNN. "Why are Black men being belittled?"

The erstwhile nationalist co-chair of the Bernie Sanders 2020 statesmanlike run said that Obama was "wrong."

"Now, a batch of emotion for erstwhile President Obama, but for him to azygous retired Black men is wrong, and immoderate of the Black men that I person talked to person their reasons wherefore they privation to ballot a antithetic way, and adjacent if immoderate of america whitethorn not similar that, we person to respect it," she said.

Former Bernie Sanders run advisor slammed erstwhile President Barack Obama for calling retired Black men who are not supporting Vice President Kamala Harris.

Turner explained further, "So unless President Barack Obama is gonna spell retired and lecture each different radical of men from different individuality groups, my connection for Democrats is don’t bring it present to Black men who, by and large, don’t ballot overmuch otherwise from Black women."

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Turner added that politicians should strive to tribunal each voters, and successful the process, garner enactment from the "few bully men retired determination who bash attraction astir the stripping distant of immoderate of women’s bodily autonomy."

Turner concluded, "But this is incorrect for President Obama. It is simply a incorrect people for the Harris-Walz run to laic astatine the feet of Black men erstwhile they person their reasons."

Turner’s comments came aft Obama ripped into Black men who person not been arsenic enthusiastic astir Harris’ statesmanlike bid arsenic they were for his 2008 and 2012 governmental campaigns.

Former President Barack Obama speaks during a run lawsuit successful enactment of Democratic statesmanlike nominee and U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris successful Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S., October 10, 2024. REUTERS/Quinn Glabicki (REUTERS/Quinn Glabicki)

"We person not yet seen the aforesaid kinds of vigor and turnout successful each corners of our neighborhoods and communities arsenic we saw erstwhile I was running," Obama said during a pre-campaign rally halt successful Pittsburgh connected Thursday.

The salient Democrat said helium had noticed a quality successful the excitement surrounding Harris, peculiarly among African-Americans.

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Obama said, "Now, I besides privation to accidental that that seems to beryllium much pronounced with the brothers. So if you don't caput -- conscionable for a second, I've got to talk to y’all and accidental that erstwhile you person a choice, that is this clean: When connected the 1 hand, you person idiosyncratic who grew up similar you, went to assemblage with you, understands the struggles [and the] symptom and joyousness that comes from those experiences…" He went connected to opposition this with Trump.

"You’re coming up with each kinds of reasons and excuses," helium continued. "I’ve got a occupation with that."

Former Bernie Sanders run advisor Nina Turner slammed former President Barack Obama for calling retired achromatic men who bash not enactment Vice President Kamala Harris. (Fox News )

"I’m speaking to men straight — portion of it makes maine deliberation that, well, you conscionable aren’t feeling the thought of having a pistillate arsenic president, and you’re coming up with different alternatives and different reasons for that," Obama said.

Many Democrats person expressed fearfulness of a repetition of 2016 erstwhile Trump defeated Hillary Clinton. 

Recent reports amusement a tiny spread betwixt Harris and Trump successful the polls.

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Fox News' Charles Creitz contributed to this report.