Nikki Haley’s historic decisionto appoint Rep. The party saw one of its most prominent African-American voices elevated Monday, with South Carolina Gov. ( Also on POLITICO: Conservatives thrilled by Tim Scott) The elected Republican Senate leadership is all male, all white. But Democrats have 16 incoming female senators - four times as many. The top Republicans on all but two Senate committees are white men - Lisa Murkowski on the Energy and Natural Resources Committee and Susan Collins on the Special Committee on Aging are the outliers. Senate Republicans were doing slightly better even before Scott’s appointment. The top three elected House leaders, the only ones with real juice and substantial staff, are white men, too. ( Also on POLITICO: With Candice Miller appointment, woman will lead House committee after all) It’s like a “Saturday Night Live” parody. Candice Miller of Michigan, was appointed to the Administration Committee, the panel responsible for keeping the House in order. Greg Walden, 55, of Oregon.Įvery House chairman elected by peers is a middle-aged or older white man. The two people responsible for recruiting the next crop of congressional candidates for the party are - you guessed it - middle-aged white men: Sen. Watts, one of only 25 African-Americans in history to serve in the House as a Republican, was floated as an alternative. The returning Republican National Committee chairman is Reince Priebus, a 40-year-old white man. Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy is doing the same on the House side.īut when it comes to the GOP putting people in positions of power to actually change things, it’s still raining men - the same older, white, straight ones that got the party into this jam in the first place. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and other prominent Republicans are privately warning conservatives to put a sock in it when it comes to arguments that turn off large swaths of voters, sources tell us. Under pressure from party leaders, most Republicans have chucked the anti-gay marriage, anti-illegal immigrant hostility - at least in public - that defined the party the past three elections. Republicans are in full panic mode about being the party of old, white, straight, conservative men for years to come - and struggling big time with how to change things.
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