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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsState GOP chairman warns California is 'canary in the coal mine' for national party
By CARLA MARINUCCI 12/07/2018 05:12 AM EST
SAN FRANCISCO The outgoing chair of the California GOP the nations largest state Republican Party has issued a dire warning that his state represents the canary in the coal mine for the partys national fortunes unless it confronts demographic shifts that have already turned California into a majority-minority state.
We have not yet been able to figure out how to effectively communicate and get significant numbers of votes from non-whites, said former state Sen. Jim Brulte, whos held the job of state GOP chair since 2013 and will retire in February.
Despite trend lines that show the the entire country will be majority minority by 2044, he said, the GOP has failed to confront the reality of those changes or recognize the possibility that the recent "blue tsunami" midterm election in California was a harbinger of what lies ahead for the national party.
Brulte said hes repeatedly warned that the partys overwhelmingly white and male candidates must figure out how we get votes from people who dont look like you.
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https://www.politico.com/story/2018/12/07/california-elections-2018-republican-party-jim-brulte-1048192
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State GOP chairman warns California is 'canary in the coal mine' for national party (Original Post)
DonViejo
Dec 2018
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empedocles
(15,751 posts)1. California awfully big Canary
GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)2. Loved this:
We have not yet been able to figured out how to effectively communicate and get significant numbers of votes from non-whites
Step 1: dont be a bunch of racist.
hatrack
(59,564 posts)3. "Effective Communications" - yeah, that's what you're bringing up?
Well, I suppose it's easier than admitting that the entire party has devolved into a racist 4Chan subgroup screaming into the void about vaccines, Uranium 1, George Soros and the Invading Brown Hoards of TEH CARAVAN!!!!
Whatever.