The Republican Party Is Losing Its Future
You can pick your own favorite data point. “There are 277 Republican governors, senators and congresspeople. Without Hurd, exactly one (1) is black,” Dan Lavoie calculates. Or as Politico notes, “There are more men named Jim in the House than Republican women running for reelection.”
But the point is clear. With Representative Will Hurd’s announcement last night that he won’t run for reelection, it seems as if there’s no room for anyone but white men in the Republican Party.
The GOP’s stats were miserable even before the past few weeks, which have seen retirement announcements from several Republicans, including Representative Martha Roby of Alabama, one of 13 women in the House GOP caucus. Representative Susan Brooks, another one of them and the head of recruitment for the caucus,
