GOP Brutally Fact-Checked After Boasting About 'Record Number' Of Black Republican Candidates

We currently have a record number of Black Republicans running for office and winning at all levels. \n\nOver 40 Black Republicans are running in GOP primaries for both local and federal office. \n#BlackHistoryMonth

— GOP (@GOP) 1644158040

GOP wants you to know it has a black friend so it can't be racist.https://twitter.com/GOP/status/1490332956703043590\u00a0\u2026

— Rachel Bitecofer \ud83d\udcc8\ud83d\udd2d\ud83c\udf4c\ud83e\udd86 (@Rachel Bitecofer \ud83d\udcc8\ud83d\udd2d\ud83c\udf4c\ud83e\udd86) 1644166957

There are 90,000 local governments.https://twitter.com/GOP/status/1490332956703043590\u00a0\u2026

— Dan Smith (@Dan Smith) 1644201417

There are over 450 federal offices, ~7,000 state legislative seats & thousands more local races up for grabs in 2022.\n\n40 Black Americans running as Republicans out of all those seats is an *indictment*, @GOP, not something to gloat about:pic.twitter.com/gYfRCZT8QZ

— Nick Knudsen (@Nick Knudsen) 1644167584

330 million people and the gop wants credit for finding 40 Black people to run as republicans. Beyond parodypic.twitter.com/36uGccYV8i

— Brian (@Brian) 1644202607

PATHETIC: The Republican Party thought that having a measly number of 40 Black people among the 7,500 GOP candidates for state and federal office was worth bragging about, calling it \u201ca record number.\u201d \n\nWho agrees that\u2019s NOTHING to brag about?

— Jon Cooper (@Jon Cooper) 1644244128

They don't do well with math, or science or.......

— Sellen (@Sellen) 1644166003

America has:\n\u2022537 Federal Offices\n\u202218,749 State Offices\n\u2022500,396 Local Offices\n\n40 Black Republicans running in 519,682 offices is .007%. Imagine bragging about this during #BlackHistoryMonth.

— Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@Qasim Rashid, Esq.) 1644248686

If 40 is a record number, that's just sad. And you thought this was a brag.\n\nAnd let's not forget the makeup of the last administration.\n\nAt least there was Ben Carson.pic.twitter.com/WCJOZzFoW5

— Pete \ud83d\udc89\ud83c\udf66\ud83d\udc1d (@Pete \ud83d\udc89\ud83c\udf66\ud83d\udc1d) 1644167781

"Auditors in Washington State found that the mail ballots of Black voters were being rejected at four times the rate of white voters. Similar trends have been seen in other states."\n\nRejected Mail Ballots Are Showing Racial Disparitieshttps://nyti.ms/3HvGxB2

— (Italian) Bamboo cryptologist (@(Italian) Bamboo cryptologist) 1644201014

Around 750 since 2012.\n\n"[T]he 50 counties that gained the most Black and Latinx residents between 2012 and 2018 closed 542 polling sites, compared to just 34 closures in the 50 counties that have gained the fewest black and Latinx residents."https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/mar/02/texas-polling-sites-closures-voting\u00a0\u2026

— (Italian) Bamboo cryptologist (@(Italian) Bamboo cryptologist) 1644201165

The @GOP is boasting that 40 Black Republicans running for office is a record. FOURTY - IN THE ENTIRE COUNTRY\n\nGet back to us in November with the results of how many Black candidates actually won Republican races for a Party that doesn\u2019t even want us to vote.pic.twitter.com/UAGv3lZV0G

— Christopher Webb \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@Christopher Webb \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8) 1644169799

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— Papa Hades (@Papa Hades) 1644160983

\u201cIn all, 16 African Americans served in the U.S. Congress during Reconstruction; more than 600 more were elected to the state legislatures, and hundreds more held local offices across the South.\u201d\n\nhttps://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/black-leaders-during-reconstruction\u00a0\u2026\n\nThey can\u2019t even get their *own* history right.https://twitter.com/gop/status/1490332956703043590\u00a0\u2026

— Steve Vladeck (@Steve Vladeck) 1644190628

And that\u2019s only a \u201crecord number\u201d if you completely ignore the early decades of the GOP\u2019s history when the party had a strong commitment to federal enforcement of civil rights and voting \u2014 wait, yeah, yeah, I see it, my bad.https://twitter.com/sethcotlar/status/1490373453534281731\u00a0\u2026

— Kevin M. Kruse (@Kevin M. Kruse) 1644168089

"A record number of Black Republicans? Sure Sparky! \n\nREPUBLICAN PLATFORM = VIOLENCE, CHEATING, LYING, CORRUPTION & INSURRECTION #NeverForgetJan6th2021. That's who they are, TERRORISTS!pic.twitter.com/ysqxTF1Jkq

— Rosie, not the TV Rosie / All DM's will be ignored (@Rosie, not the TV Rosie / All DM's will be ignored) 1644162859