by Arian Campo-Flores

TAMPA, Fla.— African-American support for the Republican Party has
fallen so far that a recent Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll showed Mitt Romney capturing 0.0% of the black vote.
Enter Mia Love, the 36-year-old daughter of Haitian
immigrants and a Republican congressional candidate in Utah. Should she
win, she would be the first-ever black Republican woman to win a seat in
Congress.
In a speech that drew sustained applause at the GOP convention
Tuesday night, Ms. Love recounted her parents’ journey to the U.S.,
saying they arrived with only $10 in their pockets.“The America I grew up knowing was centered in self-reliance and
filled with the possibilities of living the American dream,” said Ms.
Love, the mayor of Saratoga Springs, Utah.
She made apparent references to civil-rights icons Rosa Parks and Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr. “Our story has been told over 200 years, with
small steps and giant leaps, from a woman on a bus to a man with a
dream,” she said.
Ms. Love, a staunch conservative who converted to Mormonism, is challenging Democratic Rep. Jim Matheson,
a six-term incumbent. Cook Political Report rates the race a tossup,
and Ms. Love’s exposure on Tuesday night could give her a boost.


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