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Republican National Committee closes minority outreach center in San Antonio

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So much for building a bigger tent. The Republican National Committee has shuttered a South San Antonio office it opened in 2021 as part of its much-trumpeted effort to court Latinx voters after Donald Trump's unexpectedly strong 2020 performance in South Texas, according to the San Antonio Report.

In 2022, RNC officials said the San Antonio center and two others nearer the border were part of a multi-million-dollar bid to woo South Texas Latinx voters.So much for building a bigger tent.

At the time, Aimee Villarreal — then the head of Our Lady of the Lake University's Center for Mexican American Studies — said Republicans misread Trump's strong performance in select South Texas counties. The GOP's continued vilification of immigrants would work counter to its efforts to build recruitment, she added.that his multiple criminal indictments increase his appealing to Black voters because they see him as a victim of discrimination.

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