RNC Self-Owns With Boast About 40 Black Candidates

The Week reports:

The Republican Party’s official Twitter feed celebrated Black History Month on Sunday by touting the “record number of Black Republicans running for office and winning at all levels.” That number was “over 40,” and those races were “GOP primaries for local and federal office.” This tweet presumably was meant to showcase the GOP’s inroads with Black voters, but not everybody was impressed with the “over 40” number, which is under one candidate per state.

We currently have a record number of Black Republicans running for office and winning at all levels.

Over 40 Black Republicans are running in GOP primaries for both local and federal office. #BlackHistoryMonth

— GOP (@GOP) February 6, 2022

There are over 500,000 local and federal elected positions in the US.

– 537 (President, Vice President, Congress) federal.
– 7,000 state legislators nationwide
– 50 governors
– 493,000+ local elected officials

40 is .008% of 500,000. #BlackHistoryMonth

— John Kinnear (@askdadblog) February 6, 2022

There are 90,000 local governments. https://t.co/QHb06u0tQW

— Dan Smith (@dansmithphd) February 7, 2022

The @GOP is boasting that 40 Black Republicans running for office is a record. FOURTY – IN THE ENTIRE COUNTRY

Get back to us in November with the results of how many Black candidates actually won Republican races for a Party that doesn’t even want us to vote. pic.twitter.com/UAGv3lZV0G

— Christopher Webb ?? (@cwebbonline) February 6, 2022