Minorities and the Midterms

The Brian Lehrer Show | Nov 6, 2014

The first African-American Republican woman, Mia Love, was elected to Congress yesterday. And Republican Tim Scott became the first African-American senator from South Carolina. CEO of Christie Strategies LLC, former special assistant to President George W. Bush and deputy assistant to Vice President Dick Cheney, Ron Christie, and Republican strategist and author of Los Republicanos: Why Hispanics and Republicans Need Each Other, (Palgrave Macmillan Trade, 2007), Leslie Sanchez, talk about whether the GOP's approach to minority candidates and voters changed, and how the demographics of presidential elections are different.

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