Is the Democratic Party still the party of diversity?

Published January 2, 2020 8:37pm ET



With Julian Castro officially out of the 2020 race and Cory Booker likely soon to follow suit, the Democratic Party must face a bleak, precarious reality: the party it has marketed (the party of diversity, inclusion, and wokeness) is not the party represented by its top presidential candidates.

What began as the most diverse Democratic primary field is dominated once again by older, white candidates. Castro, the only Latino in the race, announced he was ending his campaign early Thursday, and Kamala Harris, one of the race’s black candidates, dropped out in December. Cory Booker will undoubtedly follow suit soon since he failed to meet the qualifications for December’s primary debate, and unless he magically surges, will miss January’s, too. And, try as she might, Elizabeth Warren does not qualify as a racial minority.

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