Newt Gingrich raises a valid point when calling for Republican incumbents in Washington to devote more time to visit minority neighborhoods, to allay concerns that the GOP doesn’t care about them.

Newsmax quotes Gingrich as saying that, “part of it is just frankly paying attention and sitting down saying, what are your problems? The fact is we don’t even show up.”

He told Steve Malzberg on Newsmax TV’s ‘The Steve Malzberg Show, that, “I would say every Republican incumbent in the House and Senate, for example, should spend one third of their time in minority communities. And they don’t have to go there to sell out; they ought to go there to listen. What are their concerns about bad schools? What are their concerns about crime? … The fact is we don’t even show up.”

According to Newsmax, “Gingrich, now a political consultant, said Republicans had a ‘flat-footed approach’ in reaching minorities that did little but ‘alienate’ them.”

Gingrich added, “take for example Asian Americans, which actually was Obama’s second strongest group after African Americans. Republicans did worse with Asian Americans than they did with Latino Americans.”

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