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• CA-08- 45.4%- openThe Republicans have two ways to protect themselves from a demographic catastrophe-- gerrymandering or attracting support from non-whites. They seem to prefer the former. One district the Democrats should be able to re-take next year is CA-23 which is 69.5% Latino. You'd think the DCCC would have had the thought to recruit a Latino; but if you'd think that, you wouldn't grasp how incompetent and stupid the DCCC is. Or maybe they somehow think a Filipina is a Latina. Despite themselves they'll probably win the seat, which was the seat of the only African-American Republican congressman. Was, because Will Hurd is sick of dealing with Trump and with his party's racism and has decided to retire (at age 42).
• CA-22- 39.1%- Devin Nunes
• CA-23- 46.5%- Kevin McCarthy
• CA-42- 42.9%- Ken Calvert
• FL-25- 18.7% (76% Hispanic)
• GA-07- 45.8%- open
• TX-02- 48%- Dan Crenshaw
• TX-22- 41.4%- open
• TX-23- 24.4%- open
• TX-24- 48.2%- open
• TX-27- 40%- Michael Cloud
Hurd just did an interview the aired yesterday on HBO-Axios, a short clip of which is just above. "I do believe," Hurd said, "that if the Republican Party doesn't start looking like the rest of the country, there won't be a Republican Party in this country... Minorities, people under the age of 29 and women with a college degree in the suburbs are not choosing the Republican Party... We know where the trends are going [and we] know what we need to do..."
Will Hurd's district is in Texas, not California.
ReplyDeleteRepublican thought leaders have been saying these things for many years, that they must reach out or disappear. It's touching really, so earnest it is.
ReplyDelete->Problem with this is that their VOTERS are not in on this plan at all. That's how Trump rode in and stole their lobotomized voters right out from under them and try as they did, they could not stop him. They still can't stop him as he leads them off a cliff like the pied piper.
It's not original to point out the Pete Wilson effect on the GOP in California and that Trump will do the same thing on a national level. Win, lose or draw in 2020 Trump has set the good ship GOP on fire, and he's not finished yet.
@Unknown--You're right, of course. Remember the GOP post-mortem from 2012? Explicit in that was the need for the GOP to reach out to non-White voters. Fast-forward to 2016, and....their nominee is Trump. And yes, Trump is burning down the GOP ship, but it seems that the majority are in no hurry to jump off. Let 'em burn and go down with the ship, I say.
ReplyDelete(Of course, it wasn't necessary for this article to start off slam-dancing on the DCCC leadership, but nice going on DWT! for ignoring the fact that the Democrats have perhaps the most diverse group of candidates for President this primary season, including a Latino, but ol' Howie and company are pushing for the White Guy from Vermont...because he's an "agent of change" or something...which is horseshit because four of the five women running as Democratic candidates for the Presidency this time have more legislative achievements.)
As much as I would love to see the title situation come about, it is just as likely that the corporatists would take the Powell Memo to its logical conclusion and construct a totalitarian regime to rule this land. Trump opened the door to this happening, and is of no further value to the Big Money interests who want to convert governance in this nation to that which rules inside private corporations.
ReplyDeletemarc et al, you cannot argue that overt racism helped them in 2016. They got the triumvirate.
ReplyDeleteit isn't the nazis' racism that is impeding their chances. It's trump's stupidity and criminality and belligerence. And their voters got nothing from trump except affirmation of their hatreds. They have otherwise been screwed.
the gop has been racist since LBJ passed his "great society" reforms, pushing all southern democrats into waiting arms wearing sheets.
ReplyDeleteYet they keep winning elections.
racism isn't going to bury them unless americans get less racist. that won't happen.