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A spokesman for the Republican National Committee turned to Twitter Thursday evening to slam the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People for seemingly failing to congratulate Republicans Tim Scott and Mia Love on their historic midterm election wins Tuesday.
"Can we take a moment to understand how the @NAACP didn't congratulate the first black person ever elected to both the House and Senate?" RNC deputy press secretary Raffi Williams tweeted, adding that the group is "failing the black community by only supporting Dems."
can we take a moment to understand how the @NAACP didnt congratulate the first black person ever elected to both the House and Senate?
— Raffi Williams (@Raffiwilliams) November 6, 2014Williams continued skewering the organization in several followup tweets, contending if the NAACP was "truly bipartisan" they "would support all blacks not just dem Blacks."
.@NAACP is failing the black community by only supporting Dems
— Raffi Williams (@Raffiwilliams) November 6, 2014it is unacceptable for an org that supposedly supports all blacks @NAACP to only acknowledge Dem blacks
— Raffi Williams (@Raffiwilliams) November 6, 2014.@NAACP used to do great work for the black community. note USED
— Raffi Williams (@Raffiwilliams) November 6, 2014If the @NAACP was a truly bipartisan org thay would support all blacks not just dem Blacks
— Raffi Williams (@Raffiwilliams) November 6, 2014I wish an org like the @NAACP would support black ppl of ideologies. unfortunately they are proving how out of date they are
— Raffi Williams (@Raffiwilliams) November 6, 2014.@NAACP should support all black ppl who are working to affect positive change in their communities. But they dont
— Raffi Williams (@Raffiwilliams) November 6, 2014the fact that black ppl can win elected office should be celebrated by the @NAACP as a sign of how far our country has come. But @NAACP 1/2
— Raffi Williams (@Raffiwilliams) November 6, 2014...wont celebrate black republicans cc:@NAACP 2/2
— Raffi Williams (@Raffiwilliams) November 6, 2014The NAACP released a statement on the 2014 midterm elections Wednesday which failed to mention the historic wins of Love and Scott. Love is the first black Republican elected to Congress and Scott became the first black senator elected in the South since the Reconstruction-era.
A spokesperson for the NAACP declined to comment on the specific allegations, but told TheBlaze the group is a bipartisan organization that supports members of both parties.
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