RNC Reverses On Ending Minority Outreach Programs

The Washington Post reports:

The Republican Party’s new chairman, Michael Whatley, declared in a Thursday memo that the party would keep open its early-voting program, called Bank Your Vote, and not shutter any of its bricks-and-mortar community centers, contradicting comments by top party officials earlier in the week.

The initial reports that community centers would close and Bank Your Vote would transition sparked concerns inside the party.

It also triggered attacks by President Biden’s campaign, which painted the move in a news release Wednesday as an example of the RNC abandoning its minority outreach program, since many of the community centers are in Black and Latino communities.

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GOP backtracks on closing community centers and sidetracking early-vote program — via @michaelscherer and @jdawsey1 https://t.co/fQ0IAbplj9

— Patrick Marley (@patrickdmarley) March 15, 2024