Jeremy Hunt, a former Army captain, is attempting to unseat a 30-year Democratic incumbent to win a House seat in Georgia. For a Black Republican, that is a tough task.
While Hunt can be loquacious, there is one challenge hanging over his House run that he doesn’t like to bring up: Trump. The most prominent figure in the Republican Party — or his history of racially insensitive remarks — is never mentioned in Hunt’s stump speech. That may be a safe bet after Gov. Brian Kemp won the state’s Republican primaryHunt said that he has benefited from Trump’s ascendance and the former president’s shedding more light on the concerns of working-class voters.
But that was before Garland became a born-again Christian. “I began to see the most important thing was my love for Christ, not my love for race,” Garlandduring a 2018 interview with the Stream, a Christian website. “I had to confess some racial prejudice in my own heart. Then I asked the Lord to help me, and He did.” Garland would go on to write books, co-host a local television show , and found a church dedicated to racial reconciliation.
“They mock our values,” he says of Democrats. “They mock Christianity. We are the party of the working class.” He has a plan to reach out to Black churches throughout the district. “And so that’s how we’re going to win this.”It’s a conundrum that has bedeviled some Republicans for years: Black voters who are cultural, religious or economic conservatives still voting Democratic. The 88 percent of Black voters Biden won in Georgia helped him carry the state by the thinnest of margins.
In addition to an entrenched incumbent, Hunt is facing some of the same challenges that stymied Glenn, attacked by his opponents as a “carpetbagger” whose campaign was controlled and underwritten by the D.C. Republican establishment. “He’s the hope,” Glenn said of Hunt. “I commend him for being willing to take that on. It’s not going to be easy.”
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