MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — Just one African-American candidate will appear on the ballot for Mayor of Mobile. Lawrence Battiste and Jermaine Burrell withdrew from the race Wednesday and officially endorsed Barbara Drummond.
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“This moment we’re in calls for unity,” said Burrell, a former Mobile city councilman.
Battiste, a former police chief, says polling showed that none of the three black candidates was likely to make a runoff.
“You need to position yourself to be one or two,” Battiste said. “If you’re not one or two, it doesn’t matter. Number three is the first loser. So, the goal is how do we come together and give one of us an opportunity to be in the top two?”…