The 2020 Republican National Convention featured a procession of minority speakers that was, as reported at the time, almost certainly unprecedented.
It would be easy to mock this week’s lineup of speakers of color as mostly performative, but you would be wrong to do so.
Republicans are strategically — almost surgically — trying to carve away minority voters from Democrats.
Let’s recall how we got here: In 2013, not long after losing a second presidential election to Barack Obama, Republicans produced a 100-page report titled the “Growth and Opportunity Project,” often called the Republican autopsy.
It chastised the party for “driving around in circles on an ideological cul-de-sac” and insisted that it must broaden its appeal to minority voters: “We need to campaign among Hispanic, Black, Asian and gay Americans and demonstrate we care about them, too.”
Persons:
Let’s, Barack Obama, ”
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