A new article in the CT Mirror exposes the quick closure of the Black and Latino RNC ‘community center’ in New Britain, CT. This follows bombshell reporting about how the cash-strapped RNC is shuttering efforts to reach voters of color.
Before its closure, 2022 Republican congressional candidate George Logan used the ‘community center’ as a campaign headquarters and said it proved to Connecticut voters that “Republicans are paying attention to the inner cities, to the urban areas in a way that we haven’t in the past.”
DCCC Spokesperson José Muñoz:
“The RNC made sure that any investments to reach Black and Latino voters in Connecticut were the first they cut as they searched for pennies in the couch cushions. The closure of the New Britain ‘community center’ shows just how disingenuous and superficial their efforts have always been.”
In 2022, the Republican National Committee worked to get more engaged with voters of color in communities where the GOP has historically underperformed. A key part of that effort was investments in community centers across the nation.
But shortly after the end of the midterm elections season, the RNC wound down many of the centers, with only a handful remaining open. The RNC’s Black & Hispanic Community Center in New Britain shut down at the end of 2022, apparently one of the casualties.
With the 2024 elections kicking into high gear, the fate of these community centers is uncertain amid the RNC’s recent staff shakeup, with more allies of former President Donald Trump in leadership, and mixed messaging on bringing them back, as well as the party’s early-voting program.
The hub was located in a small strip mall on West Main Street in New Britain and hosted some high-profile campaign events. Then-RNC chairwoman Ronna McDaniel visited ahead of the 2022 election to campaign with [George] Logan.
During a Fox News interview last week, Lara Trump, who is the new co-chair of the RNC and the former president’s daughter-in-law, also disputed reports that the centers are closing. But the New Britain one as well as others, as in Wisconsin, have been closed for years, while five reportedly stayed open.
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