Will Hurd on the Future of the Republican Party – The Atlantic

Hurd: Heres the secret sauce: EveryoneI dont care what country you come from, Latino, African Americanyou care about putting food on your table, a roof over your head, and making sure that the people you love are healthy and happy. When you talk about those issues, that's going to resonate.

Too often, we get caught up in the conversations going on on social media and cable news. When I went into these communities to do town halls, nobody brought up those issues on the chyron at the bottom of the newscast. They cared about making sure their kids were going to be able to be competitive and go to college. They wanted to make sure that the industry they're working in was going to survive. They cared about having good roads. They cared about border securityfor people who live on the border, its called public safety.

Green: In Texas, the state party didnt invest money in getting the census distributed until really late in the game. And at the national level, the Trump administration attempted to insert a citizenship question, which a lot of people thought was an effort to try to disincentivize Latinos from answering the survey. But if what youre saying is true, counting Latinos is potentially going to be part of Republican success in Texas, not a deficit. I wonder if you think the Republican Party hamstrung itself.

Hurd: Theres folks who believe that more people voting or engaged in civic society is going to be bad. If youre afraid of new voters, then to me that's a sign that you need to rethink your strategy.

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Green: At the national level, do you think the Republican Party has done a good job of making it clear that it doesnt want to be mostly a white party?

Hurd: We have to be better. We cant be seen as being jerks, racists, misogynists, or homophobes. We oftentimes describe the Republican Party as only a handful of national figures. The Republican Party is the people who vote. We are the party thats going to help everybody move up the economic ladder. And that work is made more difficult by some individuals within the party.

Green: Are you frustrated that the oxygen gets sucked up by people like Lauren Boebert and Marjorie Taylor Greene, who have become these figureheads for what the new Republican Party looks like?

Hurd: Yes, when oxygen on these national conversations gets sucked up on things, its hard, because we are in a new cold war with the Chinese government. Their GDP is going to be larger than the United States of Americas. And they have made it clear that they are trying to surpass the United States as a sole hegemon in the world. These are the conversations that we should be having on a national scale.

We have some serious, generationally defining challenges that we have to address, and these politics are getting in the way of having real discourse. Thats where I get frustrated.

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