As their once core demographic diminishes, Republicans are going to any lengths to capture and keep the white vote.
As Republicans were promoting themselves as a multiracial party from the platform in Tampa two weeks ago, an ugly incident on the convention floor suggested not everyone had got the memo. From the podium a range of speakers of Haitian, Mexican, Cuban and Indian descent spoke of how their parents had overcome huge barriers so they could succeed in the US. In the audience, a successful black woman who works for CNN was being pelted with peanuts by a convention-goer, who said: “This is how we feed the animals.” Read more
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- Gary Younge in The Guardian
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Gary Younge is a feature writer and columnist for The Guardian based in the US.
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