GOP eyes Indiana upset amid national push to diversify party
Associated Press— After a lunchtime roundtable with Indiana Sen. Todd Young and Utah Rep. Burgess Owens, Republican congressional candidate Jennifer-Ruth Green suggested she appreciated “serving alongside my peers.” “Not my peers,” she quickly corrected. The GOP also has 28 Black nominees, 33 Hispanic Americans, 13 Asian Americans and three American Indians running, according to the National Republican Campaign Committee, the party’s House campaign arm. “‘Or do you want something different?’” Former Utah Rep. Mia Love was elected in 2014 as the House’s first Black Republican woman but lost four years later. “What Jennifer represents are American values,” Owens said of the possibility of Green becoming the GOP’s second Black female House member. “Whether it’s Democrat or Republican, we’ve got to side with the people that’s going to help us.” Former Indiana state lawmaker Charlie Brown, a Democrat from Gary, noted that Green doesn’t mention party affiliation on many of her campaign materials, which he said may “fool” some Black voters into supporting her without knowing she’s a Republican.
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