Kendall Qualls, army veteran, business executive, and all-around straight shooter, recently announced he’s running for governor of Minnesota. Now here’s the twist: He’s black. That alone shouldn’t be headline news, but in a state such as Minnesota and a party such as the GOP, it kind of is.
When I talked to Qualls, he didn’t hold back. Minnesota, he says, has been on the decline for 20 years, and he points the finger squarely at Democrats. But not just any Democrats. “The uber-left Democrats — the socialist Democrats,” as he calls them, who think capitalism is a dirty word. “That’s one of the biggest issues,” he told me. “That’s why you’re seeing more and more black Americans coming to the point of Republicans.”
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