(Headline USA) Despite insisting repeatedly that race should not be an issue while trying to bait former President Donald Trump into attacking Vice President Kamala Harris for her identity politics, leftists at the influential Associated Press launched their own smear attack against the wife of Trump’s running mate, Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio.
The syndicated outlet suggested spurilously that the Republican Party, which recently made history with two major-party primary candidates of full Indian heritage, Nikki Haley and Vivek Ramaswamy, was somehow resistant to the idea of embracing a non-white or non-Christian vice-presidential spouse.
The GOP was the first party to put into office a governor of Indian heritage—former Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal. Jindal, who was elected in 2008—the same year that Barack Obama became the first half-black president—served as chair of the Republican Governor’s Association from 2012 to 2013.
In 2010, Haley was elected by South Carolina Republicans as the second Indian–American governor. No other Indian–American governors from either party have been elected since.
Incidentally, the GOP also holds the distinction of putting the first African–American and Mexican–American governors in office (former Louisiana Gov. P.B.S. Pinchback in 1872 and former California Gov. Romualdo Pacheco in 1875, respectively). […]
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