Wesley Hunt, a black GOP candidate running for Congress in Texas’ 38th district near Houston, raised more than a million dollars in the most recent funding quarter, October through December 2021, according to Roll Call.
The district — which is heavily Republican and mostly White — created the 2020 census, which granted two new seats in the Lone Star state.
Other Black GOP contenders, such as ex-football star Herschel Walker, who is running for Senate in Georgia, gathered $5.4 million in the quarter. And in Florida Rep. Byron Donalds took in $2.3 million as of Sept. 30, according to the outlet.
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The grass has been ever greener for the Senate GOP’s only Black member, South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott, who banked $7 million in the last fundraising quarter of 2021, FEC records show.
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“I think there is a pretty clear signal from Republican base voters, small-dollar donors and major donors as well. They’re excited about Black candidates because Black candidates are living breathing refutations of the Liberal canard that American Conservatism is inextricably intertwined with and dependent upon racism,” GOP strategist Luke Thompson told The Post.
California GOP Rep. Young Kim, who was born in South Korea, plans to report raising $1.2 million in the fourth quarter with about $2.6 million in the bank.
Those candidates and their fundraising receipts offer a more complex portrait of race and the Republican Party than Democrats’ recent messaging, and show a party seeking more diverse candidates even as many of its members downplay the prominence of racism in America today.
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“What that tells us is we are truly the party of a meritocracy,” said Hunt, who noted that he’d received contributions from 22,000 donors in his bid for Texas’ new, majority White, Houston-area 38th District seat. Hunt, who ran for a different House district in 2020 and lost to Democrat Lizzie Fletcher, has the backing of House GOP leaders, including Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy of California.
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Advocates for the voting rights legislation say it is not mutually solely for the GOP to be working to make it more difficult for minority groups to vote while at the same time supporting diverse candidates for Congress.
“It can still be the voter suppression party and still have some Black candidates that are running as Republicans,” said Cliff Albright, co-founder and executive director of the Black Voters Matter Fund, which supports the voting rights legislation in Congress. “You’ll always find some number of an oppressed group that will go along with the oppression.”
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