The GOP has selected a person of color who happens to be a registered Democrat to be their flag bearer in a race to fill the seat vacated by corrupt politician George Santos.
This follow on the heels of former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) telling Americans the Republican Party is too white and needs more people of color in it. If this selection to check a “diversity” check box rather than select an actual Republican who will represent the alleged values of the party doesn’t convince you the GOP is a lost cause, nothing will.
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The GOP hand-selected African-Israeli immigrant Mazi Malesa Pilip, a registered Democrat, to run for the New York House seat left vacant by George Santos’ ouster.
Republicans Thursday picked a trailblazing Black Israeli immigrant to run for the seat left vacant by the expulsion of disgraced ex-GOP Rep. George Santos, a source familiar with the decision told the Daily News.
Mazi Malesa Pilip, an Ethiopian-born Orthodox Jew and Israeli military veteran, will get the Republican and Conservative party nods even though she has long been registered as a Democrat.
Pilip will face off in a Feb. 13 special election against former Rep. Tom Suozzi, the moderate Democrat who held the seat until giving it up to run for governor in 2022, opening the door for Santos to win in a shocking midterms upset.
Former GOP House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said recently in a speech at Oxford that the GOP was too white and he set out to diversify the party to keep it from “extincting.”