The Republican Party is “now more diverse than it’s ever been in modern times,” NBC News National Political Correspondent Steve Kornacki explained on Sunday after President-elect Donald Trump won re-election last week.
Kornacki spoke with “Meet The Press” moderator Kristen Welker about how data show minority groups have shifted toward the GOP over the past eight years while Democrats have attracted more white and college-educated voters.
Trump “did it by transforming the Republican Party. It is now more diverse than it’s ever been in modern times, and certainly much more than when Donald Trump first came on the scene eight years ago,” Kornacki said.
Using a screen behind him, which displayed election statistics, Kornacki went over how the results from “pre-Trump” in 2012 compared to now showed more voters…
