The GOP, which since the 1970s has relied on white voters to win elections, is currently running the largest number of non-white candidates for Congress. Mainstream outlets like the New York Times and Washington Post have noted that, since at least some of these candidates are likely to win their races, they will create the most diverse GOP congressional delegation since Reconstruction.

These candidates come from racial and ethnic groups not typically associated with the GOP. For example, there’s Anna Paulina Luna in Florida’s 13th Congressional District, which encompasses St Petersburg and the surrounding area. Luna is a Latina and a conservative, critical of what she calls “illegal immigration” (though her comments are considerably less virulently racist than some of her Republican counterparts, including Lauren Boebert, who recently endorsed her). Wesley Hunt, a black man running in Texas’s 38th Congressional District in the Houston metro area, favors what he calls “border security” and supports “our men and women in blue,” who must be defended against “radical liberals in Congress.”

Of the 435 Republicans running for the House of Representatives, sixty-seven are people of color. This number doesn’t reflect the racial demographics of the United States. But it does represent a significant effort on the part of the GOP to diversify their candidates and their party.