There's been a rather conspicuous change to the Republican National Committee's official Cinco de Mayo message this election year. Go on, guess what it is.
The Republican National Committee dropped a line in its annual Cinco de Mayo message urging the United States to be more welcoming to immigrants from Mexico, issuing a shorter statement emphasizing the ways in which generations of Mexican-Americans have strengthened and defended the country.
Don't get too excited—it's not like the previous version had Reince Priebus signing songs about inclusiveness. But it was still a nod to the Republican "rebranding" notion of maybe not reflexively bashing an entire group of people at every possible opportunity.
"As we look to the future, America must remain a welcoming country that finds its strength in both our diversity and our common values," [Priebus] said in the 2015 statement.
You can see how the inclusion of loaded ideas like "diversity,” "common values," and, above all, "welcoming," would be breaking new ground for Reince's party. Alas, it was not to be.
So where did that sentence go in this year's version?
The RNC isn't saying, but sources indicate the humiliated sentence slithered off the page in shame. It's wandered for a while, now. It's currently sitting on a bench in front of a Texas bus depot, taking quiet stock of its life and wondering where it went wrong. "Maybe I've got enough money to make it to Midland,” it thinks to itself, but doesn't know where it would go from there.