What do you call a black Republican? How about ‘Congressman’?
Democrats face a double whammy in next month’s midterm elections. The latest polls show Republicans regaining control of the House and possibly even winning a majority in the Senate. Equally disconcerting to liberals, these gains could come in a year when the GOP is fielding a historically diverse slate of candidates.
According to the National Republican Congressional Committee, 28 of the GOP’s 435 House candidates on the ballot next month are black, and 33 are Hispanic. Some are long shots running in reliably blue districts. Others, including John James of Michigan and Wesley Hunt of Texas—both black West Point graduates—are favored to win. “Diversity in the Republican Party is not the best,” Mr. Hunt told the New York Times earlier this year. “If you don’t have people like me, and women, step up and say, actually, it’s OK to be a person of color and to be a Republican, then we’re going to lose the next generation.”
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Jason L. Riley is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a columnist at The Wall Street Journal, and a Fox News commentator. Follow him on Twitter here.
This piece originally appeared in The Wall Street Journal