ABC Highlights Black Republicans Running for Congress
ABC’s World News Sunday gave attention to black Republicans who have a good chance of getting elected in this year’s congressional elections, focusing on Tim Scott of South Carolina and Ryan Frazier of Colorado, and even showing a clip of Allen West of Florida. Anchor Dan Harris set up the report: "Two years after the historic election of America's first African-American President, there is now a huge wave of black candidates running against Barack Obama. Many of these candidates have the full support of the largely white Republican Party and the Tea Party."
As correspondent Ron Claiborne filed a report, early on a soundbite was shown of South Carolina’s Scott explaining why he believes in the Tea Party movement. Scott: "I think if you believe in conservative government, if you believe in free markets or capitalism, if you believe in not spending money you don't have, you're a Tea Party member as well."
Claiborne soon informed viewers that the South Carolina Republican is expected to make history: "If Scott is elected from this Charleston district, he would be the first African-American Republican elected to the House of Representatives from the Deep South since 1901. This year, 42 African-Americans ran for the Republican nomination for House seats; 14 of them won. And, like Republicans everywhere this year, they are harsh critics of President Obama."
Below is a complete transcript of the story from the October 31 World News Sunday on ABC:
DAN HARRIS: Two years after the historic election of America's first African-American President, there is now a huge wave of black candidates running against Barack Obama. Many of these candidates have the full support of the largely white Republican Party and the Tea Party. Ron Claiborne is on the story.
RON CLAIBORNE: Charleston, South Carolina, where the Civil War began, where tradition, conservative tradition is woven deep into politics.
TIM SCOTT, SOUTH CAROLINA REPUBLICAN CONGRESSIONAL NOMINEE: I think it's a new day, without any question.
CLAIBORNE: And it’s where Tim Scott, an African-American, is running for Congress as a Republican and proud conservative with the backing of Sarah Palin. Do you consider yourself a Tea Party member?
SCOTT: Absolutely. I think if you believe in conservative government, if you believe in free markets or capitalism, if you believe in not spending money you don't have, you're a Tea Party member as well.
CLAIBORNE: Polls show Scott far ahead in a district where white voters outnumber blacks by three to one. Who are you voting for?
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: Tim Scott.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN #1: Tim Scott.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN #2: He's proven himself. Race doesn't factor as much as many people believe in the South anymore.
CLAIBORNE: If Scott is elected from this Charleston district, he would be the first African-American Republican elected to the House of Representatives from the Deep South since 1901. This year, 42 African-Americans ran for the Republican nomination for House seats; 14 of them won. And, like Republicans everywhere this year, they are harsh critics of President Obama.
ALLEN WEST, FLORIDA REPUBLICAN CONGRESSIONAL NOMINEE, IN AD: I'll go anywhere you wish to debate your failed big government policies.
CLAIBORNE: Thirty-three-year-old Ryan Frazier is in a tight race in Colorado's Seventh District.
RYAN FRAZIER, COLORADO REPUBLICAN CONGRESSIONAL NOMINEE: You have to engage, and that's what the Republican Party is going to have to do more of. I, quite frankly, feel that, in many cases, Democrats take minorities for granted and that Republicans have not done enough.
CLAIBORNE: Democrats scoff at the notion that 14 black candidates out of 435 House seats is a trend. Republicans say this time they really are opening the door to new faces. Ron Claiborne, ABC News, Denver.
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Republican? Tea Party? Obama critics?
Submitted by motherbelt on Mon, 11/01/2010 - 7:53am.
That settles it; they're not "real" blacks.
Bunch of Uncle Toms, house slaves, porch monkeys.
nice try
Submitted by spepper on Mon, 11/01/2010 - 8:04am.
Nice try, ABC anchor Dan Harris-- but we see right through your little slam at the Republican/Tea Party as "...mostly white..."
What you fail to also point out, intentionally, is that the "other side" is also "mostly white"!
A sucker bet...
Submitted by owr084 on Mon, 11/01/2010 - 8:08am.
A sure bet is that the Congressional Black Caucus will NOT let them become members if they win...
I'd take you up on that
Submitted by mom_rox on Mon, 11/01/2010 - 9:50am.
except, my hope is that future Reps. Scott, West, et.al, are smart enough to follow J.C. Watt's lead and not want to be a part of a group formed on the basis of one's skin pigmentation.
If this happens, maybe these new
Submitted by texasborngranny on Mon, 11/01/2010 - 12:14pm.
If this happens, maybe these new black congresspersons should start the 'CBCC' or Conservative Black Congressional Caucus.
I think they should join
Submitted by Dan The Man 2 on Mon, 11/01/2010 - 4:15pm.
I think they should join because they might change the organization from the inside. This is the best way to make changes from the inside, its the way Obama and the commies he represents are trying to change the USA.
What,What???
Submitted by peteydee on Mon, 11/01/2010 - 8:15am.
There are Black folks running for office as Republicans?
They're being supported by TEA which have been branded as a group of racists?
Go look at the insanity rally held on Sat.10/30.All racists by ABC's standards.
ABC find the nearest rat hole and crawl back to your burrow.
Let's see, blacks are an
Submitted by DontFeedTheTrolls on Mon, 11/01/2010 - 8:32am.
Let's see, blacks are an American minority, but the left feels it is only right that they should be elevated to where they run everything. There is no place for merit or skill on the left. They will only be happy when every elected official is black. Maybe not even then, because they all must be 'progressives' too.
Something I notice, and maybe you do too, almost every TV show and movie I see has a mixed black/white couple, usually (not always) a black man and a blonde gal, as if: this is the norm (i.e. a black man wouldn't be caught dead with a black woman). Given that the country is roughly 15% black and 70% white this makes little sense except as a propaganda tool. And reality tells me, living in a very racially mixed neighborhood, as I do, that likes attract, when it comes to ethnicity.
These two at ABC
Submitted by dr-go on Mon, 11/01/2010 - 8:51am.
are just surprised that there are minorities running for office as as conservatives. They must have some sort of mental disorder for them to do so and are merely searching for answers to these disturbing and strange occurrences.
There's no F#$%ing way that
Submitted by dirtydan64 on Mon, 11/01/2010 - 8:51am.
There's no F#$%ing way that any of the newly elected Black Members of Congress will or even think about joining with those in the CBC ain't gonna happen as much as they (CBC) would like to run there mouths or others in the Democratic party would like to say otherwise............ It's never gonna happen people no worries !!!
Anybody notice how the
Submitted by gunguru on Mon, 11/01/2010 - 9:37am.
Anybody notice how the pattern continues: how only the left brings up the factor of race and color? Nobody voting for any of these candidates cares what color they are, but the Democraps and the state-run media think that it's a big issue. Only with you bozos, not us Americans.
Odds are that they won't be invited
Submitted by Deskpilot on Mon, 11/01/2010 - 9:43am.
into the liberal enclave on the Congressional Back Causus because they will be branded as race traitors by the current members, all avowed liberals. THere will be no video record because there will be nothing to record.
However, just to smack back at the CBC, Rep. Michele Bachmann and the Tea Party Caucus will open their doors and arms wide to welcome them. They will invite the cameras to record the event and shame the CBC.
http://politic365.com/2010/09/07/will-black-republicans-join-the-cbc/
Two days before the election?
Submitted by octavioj on Mon, 11/01/2010 - 12:08pm.
They had to wait two days before the election to show the Republicans and more than that, Tea Parties, can embrace the so called "minorities"? They had to wait two days before the election to show racism is not as prevalent as they have been propagating? Is this what passes for journalism these days? God help us.
I think they all should
Submitted by sshuffield70 on Mon, 11/01/2010 - 10:41am.
try to join the CBC....to make a point. If they are all rejected, then we know it has nothing to do with being black. It means it has everything to do with being liberal instead of conservative.
What did the just notice THIS?
Submitted by Tomorama on Mon, 11/01/2010 - 10:44am.
This STORY has been out there for FN months, but reporting this earlier would have SHUT DOWN the tea partiers are racist bulshit meme that the LSM has been on for over a year.
Women, Hispanics and African americans are part of the party and their influence and size is growing.
MORE WOMEN ARE VOTING REPUBLICAN THIS YEAR, my bad, they are just haters and bigot too, WELCOME ABOARD.
I don't give a rats behind if it is a women, AA or Hispanic that I want to vote for IF they believe in what I believe in.
By the way, I was not a huge fan of Palin until yesterday, CORRUPT BASTARDS is so right on.
If some of the parties male leaders had half her cajones, FRANKEN WOULD NOT BE A FN SENATOR.
The Dems are absolutely terrified of Rubio, terrified.
VOTE TUESDAY, PLEASE.............
the joke is on ABC. color has
Submitted by sometimesright on Mon, 11/01/2010 - 10:44am.
the joke is on ABC. color has never been the issue with the TEA party or the conservative movement. all the surprise and consternation is coming from the left. "how can this be?" "what's the underlying reasons?" hence the news story. these imbeciles can't grasp that maybe THEY'RE the problem. maybe, just maybe the ACLU, NAACP, Black Caucus(AND Hispanic Caucus) had it wrong all this time.
Blacks running for public office
Submitted by Richard B. on Mon, 11/01/2010 - 12:26pm.
Most Black candidtates have a double burden when running for office. The have to defeat their opponent and they have to defeat the democrat party. The dirty little secret is that the democrats have held the Blacks down for centuries.
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