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| Top Black Staffers Leave The Republican National Committee |
Kristal Quarker-Hartsfield, the civic administrator of African-American Initiatives at the RNC, is abrogation the alignment to plan for Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) as his administrator of intergovernmental affairs. Her endure day is set to be Friday, and she is the additional atramentous top staffer to abandon the RNC this month.
Quarker-Hartsfield and the RNC did not acknowledgment again requests for animadversion on her affidavit for leaving.
Quarker-Hartsfield joins several added staffers of blush who accept ancient the RNC recently. Orlando Watson, communications administrator for atramentous media, larboard beforehand this month. Tara Wall and Raffi Williams, son of Fox News political analyst Juan Williams, both larboard their columnist positions at the RNC backward endure year.
RNC Chair Reince Priebus has said that accretion the affair and extensive out to groups of humans who don't usually vote Republican are priorities. After the 2012 elections, he abundantly appear an dissection address absolute that the GOP bare to augment its abject if it capital to survive a alteration country.
"The RNC cannot and will not address off any demographic or association or arena of this country," Priebus said at the time.
But the GOP's presidential front-runner, Donald Trump, threatens to alter abundant of that plan with his damaging comments about women, immigrants, protesters and Muslims that alarm abounding associates of his own party.
Williams has denied that he larboard the RNC because of Trump.
"I larboard because I was just accessible for something new. They were acceptable to me, they advised me actual able-bodied and I accept no complaints about the place," he told The Huffington Post. "I anticipate it's a allotment of the accustomed aeon of the RNC. Humans appear and go."
A contempo USA Today poll showed that if Trump faces off adjoin Democrat Hillary Clinton in November, voters of blush would overwhelmingly adios the business mogul. Atramentous voters were the a lot of pronounced, abetment Clinton 67 percent of the time.
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