Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus called Donald
Trump to urge him to stop making controversial comments about Mexicans
and immigrants on Wednesday, hours before legislators in South Carolina
voted to take down the Confederate flag from the state's capitol
grounds.
Those two incidents happening at almost the same
time are not an accident. The establishment of Republican Party is
scrambling to address the perception that the GOP is not sufficiently
diverse and racially-tolerant.
But they are facing resistance. Trump is rising
in polls, with support from Tea Party conservatives who are wary of
immigration reform, even as more moderate Republicans bemoan his
candidacy. South Carolina legislators struggled to develop a plan to
take down the flag, with protesters in the state saying its imagery is a
part of the state's heritage. Leaders in the GOP-led U.S House of
Representatives were forced to pull a bill from consideration after
reports that an attached amendment would have allowed the Confederate
flag to be displayed on federal grounds in some cases.
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