Add Larry Elder to the GOP Debate – The American Spectator

Whether GOP primary voters support Donald J. Trump, Ron DeSantis, Vivek Ramaswamy, or another candidate for the White House, they all should want radio host Larry Elder in Wednesday’s first Republican presidential debate.

As a veteran conservative commentor, Elder has thought and spoken about major issues for decades. Moreover, seeing him on stage, along with Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) will chip away at the Democrat lie that the GOP is a lily-white anti-black hate group. At the margin, Elder’s mere presence should help solidify the recent tendency of black voters to give Republicans (especially Trump) a closer look.

“Republican Donald Trump’s 12% share of the Black vote in 2020 was four percentage points higher than it was in 2016, according to exit polls by Edison Research,” Reuters’ Trevor Hunnicutt and Jarrett Renshaw wrote Aug. 2. “A Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted July 11-17 found 18% of Black Americans would pick Trump over Biden in a hypothetical matchup, compared to 46% who favored Biden, including about one in four Black men, compared to about one in seven Black women.”

An 18 percent showing for Trump among blacks could bludgeon Democrats in 2024, all the more so if his support grows among black men from 19 percent in 2020 exit polls to 25 percent next year and among black women from 9 percent in 2016 to 14 percent in 2024.

The participation of Ramaswamy and former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley, Americans of East Indian descent, underscores the fact that the Republican Party is increasingly varied in terms of ethnicity and is wide open to voters of all persuasions.

The site of Larry Elder behind a podium in Milwaukee would reinforce all these notions.

More importantly, on substance, Elder would add plenty.

“Even if Republican voters want another nominee — I will place some issues, I think extremely important ones, front and center that the others do not emphasize enough, if at all,” Elder tells me.

Furthermore, he cites “[t]he epidemic of fatherlessness, particularly acute in the black community, where nearly 70% of black children enter the world without a father in the home married to the mother; the murderous, divisive lie that America remains ‘systemically racist’ — causing cops to pull back resulting in ‘excess casualties,’ most of them black and brown people living in the inner city; the catastrophe known as urban public school education, where, for example, there are 13 public high schools, all in the inner city, where 0% of the kids can do math at grade level — yet the Democratic Party opposes school choice even as their elites — Biden, Obama, Newsom — send THEIR  kids to private schools.”

Elder also says that he would stress “the need for a constitutional amendment to set spending at a certain percentage of the GDP, otherwise both parties will continue to spend, since much of the federal budget is on automatic pilot. As a consequence, we borrow $5 billion a day to meet current obligations, including interest on the debt.”

Finally, Elder hopes to detail “a method to get rid of the soft-on-crime George Soros backed DAs.”

To qualify for this debate, Elder needs 3,000 new donors. Their gifts can be as low as $1 each. Contributions are welcome at LarryElder.com.

Trump fans, in particular, should clamor for Elder’s inclusion. His higher profile would splinter the overall non-Trump vote even further, which would make it easier for the former president to triumph in winner-take-all primary states.

So, for ideological, demographic, and strategic reasons, Larry Elder should be on stage in Milwaukee. A $1 donation from each of 3,000 voters would help make this happen.

Deroy Murdock is a Manhattan-based Fox News contributor.