As Harmeet Dhillon seeks the chairmanship of the Republican National Committee, opponents have begun raising concerns about her Sikh faith — a development that has left some members of the committee unsettled.
. And members of Tennessee’s GOP executive committee last month took a voice vote to overwhelmingly express opposition to McDaniel’s continued leadership, according to a state party official.
“People aren’t bigots because they ask questions,” Horn said. “That’s a legit question: Is the Republican Party, or even the Democratic Party ready for someone of the Sikh faith? The Midwest member, who found the remark “incredibly disturbing,” said the phone call was originally unrelated to the chairman’s race and was not part of a vote-whipping effort, but that the other member eventually brought up Dhillon’s faith unprompted.
“The last thing I want to see is anyone attacked for their faith,” said Solomon Yue, the RNC committeeman from Oregon, whose Christian family fled communist China in 1980. “And now my own party, a fellow RNC member, has attacked an Asian American running for RNC chairman. This is totally unacceptable in my book. If anybody still believes in freedom and First Amendment rights, they’ve got to stand up and talk about this and stop it.
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