Responding during a interview to NewsOne’s Roland Martin, who said that "white Republicans have been scared of black folks," Steele replied: "You’re absolutely right." "I’ve been in the room and they’ve been scared of me," said Steele, the first African-American RNC chairman. "I’m like, ‘I’m on your side.’"
Responding during a interview to NewsOne’s Roland Martin, who said that "white Republicans have been scared of black folks," Steele replied: "You’re absolutely right."
"I’ve been in the room and they’ve been scared of me," said Steele, the first African-American RNC chairman. "I’m like, ‘I’m on your side.’"
"There is a lot of us who consider ourselves Republicans, of the Party of Lincoln," she said, her face now flush. "If they don't want us with them, we're going to work against them."
Silver Spring, Md.: I wonder if you could state the evidence for your premise of a "Republican resurgence". I see a Virginia that did what it’s done since 1977 (vote against the party in the White House) in the presence of an epically bad Democratic candidate... a governor in New Jersey who was wildly unpopular since even before the "2008 debacle" (your baseline)... and – oh yes – a district in NY that went Democratic for the first time since the White House has featured a bath tub. With two unsurprising (from the vantage point of a year ago) gubernatorial results and one historical flip toward the Dems in NY, isn’t it as valid to call last Tuesday a further shift leftward? Dan Balz: I don’t think I used the word "resurgence" in the piece that ran on Sunday. The chat itself had been titled "The Republican Resurgence."
Silver Spring, Md.: I wonder if you could state the evidence for your premise of a "Republican resurgence". I see a Virginia that did what it’s done since 1977 (vote against the party in the White House) in the presence of an epically bad Democratic candidate... a governor in New Jersey who was wildly unpopular since even before the "2008 debacle" (your baseline)... and – oh yes – a district in NY that went Democratic for the first time since the White House has featured a bath tub. With two unsurprising (from the vantage point of a year ago) gubernatorial results and one historical flip toward the Dems in NY, isn’t it as valid to call last Tuesday a further shift leftward? Dan Balz: I don’t think I used the word "resurgence" in the piece that ran on Sunday.
Dan Balz: I don’t think I used the word "resurgence" in the piece that ran on Sunday.
The chat itself had been titled "The Republican Resurgence."