Is Bobby Jindal white? Because Bobby is a white name. Also, "Nikki" is not a Sikh name (as a Sikh I can say that fairly confidently).
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Replying to @HeerJeet
The answer to your question may be obvious to voters, for reasons that are not hard to explain. I don't think it's healthy to obsess over this stuff, as lefty critics of Cruz, Jindal, & Haley have been known to do. But candidate identity is a core of D messaging.
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Candidate Identity isn't a core GOP messaging, for a party that has only ever nominated white men to the presidency and whose current standard bearer is Donald Trump? Are you delusional?
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Now, you're failing to understand the Right. In terms of identity politics, GOP voters are, compared to Dems, far less interested in the message than the messenger. We have plenty of recent evidence of that. I went through the most recent D primaries: https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/03/five-lanes-in-the-2020-democratic-field/ …pic.twitter.com/2zbMI2tkO3
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So the fact that around 85%-90% of elected Republicans are white men is proof that GOP voters don't care about identity politics. Because white men don't have an identity, only POC and women. White men are just neutral or human. Cool!
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You go to war with the candidates you have. Given the choice, plenty of GOP voters were thrilled to support Cruz, Haley, Jindal, Rubio, Sandoval, S. Martinez, & many other non-white-male candidates for GOV, SEN, etc. (to say nothing of nominees who fell short in the general)
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The assumption here is that GOP voters have no role in fact that 85-90 of their candidates are white Christian men. That's kind of absurd.
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Replying to @HeerJeet
Have you actually looked at GOP primary contests over the years? Your recollection of Sarah Palin being unpopular with base GOP voters, for example, is rather different than mine.
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GOP voters overwhelming love Donald Trump, who campaigned on "Mexican rapists" and "Muslim ban." Earlier today, Trump twice retweeted Jack Posobiec, a Pizzagate conspiracy theorist who has praised Richard Spencer & has used the Nazi code phrase 1488. And you're cool with that.
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This is zero evidence-as you know-for the proposition that GOP primary voters, all things being equal, prefer white male candidates to others in the way that Democrat primary voters are focused on the identity of their candidates. When you're changing the subject, you're losing.
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The fact that GOP voters backed a racist like Trump is in fact evidence of their preferences in general, as is the fact that the GOP overwhelmingly nominates white men
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All this says is that conservatives are gullible
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