Clinton aims to reset campaign with focus on black voters

MILWAUKEE (AP) — After an overwhelming loss in New Hampshire, Hillary Clinton is staking a campaign comeback on her ability to woo black and Latino voters, placing outreach to those communities at the center of her strategy to retool her 2016 bid.

The 22-point loss to rival Bernie Sanders in this week's primary heightened concerns among Democrats that Clinton's message is failing to win over both women and young voters — two key parts of the coalition that twice elected Barack Obama to the White House.

The New Hampshire defeat, along with Clinton's razor-thin win in the leadoff Iowa caucuses, raised the stakes for Clinton to rally minority voters – another pillar of the Obama coalition — in the contests coming up in Nevada and South Carolina.

As the contest fans out across the country, Clinton's campaign plans to cast her as a stalwart advocate for racial justice, tracing back to her days working for the Children's Defense Fund in the 1970s. She will tie her future even closer to Obama, who remains a deeply beloved figure among black Americans.