Marc Morial, president and CEO of the National Urban League, said the GOP’s policies are far more important than the racial and ethnic diversity of their presidential candidates. He noted there also were four Republican candidates of color in 2016, the year Trump won the White House after“White nationalists, insurrectionists and white supremacists seem to find comfort in the Party,” Morial said.
In her announcement video, Haley noted that she was raised in a small town in South Carolina as “the proud daughter of Indian immigrants — not black, not white, I was different.” Like Scott,“Some think our ideas are not just wrong, but racist and evil,” Haley said. “Nothing could be further from the truth.”
Others condemned Democrats, in Chicago and in Washington, for working harder to help immigrants who are in the country illegally than struggling African American citizens.from the U.S.-Mexico border to the South Side, even as many local residents struggled with violence and difficult economic conditions.
As of now, the GOP does not have any Hispanic candidates in the 2024 contest. But Suarez, the Miami mayor, said he may change that in the coming days.