Whitley Yates, GOP operative
BECAUSE SO FEW BLACK VOTERS ARE REPUBLICAN, YOUR JOB SEEMS LIKE A TOUGH ONE. WHAT INTERESTED YOU ABOUT THIS POSITION?
What interested me was a candid conversation I had with Indiana Republican Party chairman Kyle Hupfer about the work he had been doing in communities of color. He was very clear to me that he didn’t want to build any type of transactional relationship, because that’s what had been done in the past. I didn’t want to lead communities of color into a party by saying, “Vote for me and I’ll do this for you.” I wanted authentic relationships, and I wanted the Republican Party to be a palatable decision for
