{"id":1401299,"date":"2022-03-26T00:00:11","date_gmt":"2022-03-26T04:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1401299"},"modified":"2022-03-26T00:00:13","modified_gmt":"2022-03-26T04:00:13","slug":"connecticut-republican-george-logan-blasts-rep-jahana-hayes-for-playing-race-card-to-explain-why-she-got-elected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/connecticut-republican-george-logan-blasts-rep-jahana-hayes-for-playing-race-card-to-explain-why-she-got-elected\/","title":{"rendered":"Connecticut Republican George Logan Blasts Rep. Jahana Hayes for Playing Race Card to Explain Why She Got Elected"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fconnecticut-republican-george-logan-blasts-rep-jahana-hayes-for-playing-race-card-to-explain-why-she-got-elected%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1401299&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Rep. Jahana Hayes (D-CT), who is black, played the race card during a virtual town hall to explain that \u201cwhite liberals\u201d only elected her because they felt bad for her. Her Republican opponent, George Logan, who is also black, released a statement slamming her for exploiting race.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor those of you who haven\u2019t paid attention over the last couple cycles, in 2020, every seat that the Republicans won or flipped was with a female or minority,\u201d Hayes said during her\u00a0virtual town hall, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2022\/mar\/23\/house-democrats-warn-blue-state-revolt-november\/\">according<\/a> to the\u00a0<em>Washington Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s this idea that the only reason I got elected is because white liberals felt super sorry and guilty and voted for me, so just give them any other African American and they\u2019ll vote for this person all the same,\u201d the congresswoman explained.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<em>Times<\/em> noted that Democrats\u2019 \u201cgo-to\u201d attack on Republicans is to call them the party of old white people, despite their argument falling apart over the years. The report also pointed out that\u00a0there are 81 black Republicans that filed to run for Congress this year, compared to the last election, when only 27 filed to run for Congress.<\/p>\n<p>In response to Hayes\u2019 comments, Logan, the Democrat\u2019s highest-profile challenger, blasted her in a statement on Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cIt is disheartening to hear these remarks from Congresswoman Hayes, boiling this campaign down to skin color,\u201d he stated.\u00a0\u201cPerpetuating a narrative that says candidates of color are defined by how they look rather than what they\u2019ve accomplished is dangerous,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m running for Congress because I believe my life experiences,\u201d Logan continued. He\u00a0explained that he has already been a policymaker, had a successful career in the private sector, and serves on boards and commissions dedicated to giving back to his community.<\/p>\n<p>Logan said between his credentials and having a Masters\u00a0degree in\u00a0mechanical engineering; he would be \u201cbetter equipped\u201d to serve as the district\u2019s member of Congress than Hayes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not running for Congress on identity politics like Ms. Hayes seems to believe. I\u2019m running to fight for the people of Connecticut and to be an advocate for common sense solutions that will help get our state and country back on track,\u201d Logan concluded.<\/p>\n<p>Hayes, along with other vulnerable Democrats, have had a tough time in the polls, as has President Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<p>On a generic ballot, Republicans have been leading Democrats. In fact,\u00a0the president himself \u2014 with whom Hayes has closely aligned herself, as she voted on Biden-backed policies <a href=\"https:\/\/projects.fivethirtyeight.com\/biden-congress-votes\/house\/\">98.2 percent<\/a> of the time \u2014\u00a0has also seen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/03\/23\/poll-joe-bidens-approval-rating-hits-34-percent\/\">job approval numbers<\/a> in the low 30s after being in office for just over a year.\u00a0This could be due to the voters wanting to see a change of direction since\u00a0 Democrats took complete control in Washington, DC, in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>,.<\/p>\n<p><i>Jacob Bliss is a reporter for Breitbart News. You can follow him on <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jacobmbliss\"><i>Twitter<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Jahana Hayes (D-CT), who is black, played the race card during a virtual town hall to explain that \u201cwhite liberals\u201d only elected her because they felt bad for her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1401299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1401299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1401299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1401299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1401299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}