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After the 2014 midterm election, there was a sense the GOP was becoming a more racially diverse party when African-American Tim Scott won a seat to the U.S. Senate from South Carolina and Will Hurd and Mia Love were both elected to the House. Even NPR noted then about these historic victories that the Republican Party seemed to be "building momentum for diversifying the GOP ranks."

Those days are long gone. There are currently five times as many Republicans in the House named Jim as there are black Republicans in that chamber. And it's about to get worse. Will Hurd, the only black Republican currently in the House, announced last week he was retiring. Before that, in 2018, Mia Love was defeated and then mocked by Donald Trump, "Mia Love gave me no love and she lost," adding tauntingly, "Too bad. Sorry about that, Mia."

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