Republicans are becoming ever more a party of white men
Welcome to 2020 Vision, the Yahoo News column covering the presidential race. Reminder: There are 185 days until the Iowa caucuses and 459 days until the 2020 presidential election.When Republican Rep. Will Hurd announced his retirement Thursday night, it sent a shock through Washington and the state of Texas. The relatively young, charismatic African-American congressman, 41, won a competitive 2018 reelection race for his district, which stretches along the Mexico border.
But Democrats are also confronting issues of diversity, as this week saw a shakeup in staffing at the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee amid concerns about the absence of minorities among senior aides to the chair, Rep. Cheri Bustos of Illinois. Sen. Amy Klobuchar’s campaign announced Friday morning that it had hit the donor mark, meaning she will be joining the stage. Who else might make it? Former Housing Secretary Julián Castro and entrepreneur John Yang are close, needing to hit 2 percent in one more poll each. Billionaire Tom Steyer has to qualify in a few more polls and hit the donor mark, something he’s trying to do by dumping hundreds of thousands of dollars into Facebook.
• Sen. Bernie Sanders, at the second debate in Detroit, when he shut down attacks on his signature Medicare for All as ill informed because he “wrote the damn bill.”• Marianne Williamson , when she called reparations for slavery a “debt that is owed” at the second date and said presidential candidates are ignoring the “dark psychic force” that is President Trump.
• Former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro, at the first debate, when he said the photo of Oscar and Valeria Martinez, two migrants who died crossing into the United States, “should piss us all off.”
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