A MAGA adventure through the RNC with the unlikely head of the Milwaukee Republican Party.
Hilario Deleon is 23 years old. He is Latino. He is the chair of the Milwaukee County Republican Party. And he is having the time of his life this week.
Deleon is aware his biographical details make him an outlier, both at this ebullient Republican gathering and also in a Wisconsin county that went for Joe Biden by 69 percent in 2020. In fact, he suspects that might have something to do with why he has his job. And he embraces it. Deleon joined the local Milwaukee Republican Party, encouraged by the former county chairman. Soon after, a vice-chair position became vacant when a high-ranking member passed away. Deleon, still only 20, was surprised to be asked to fill the role. He said he thought his age and ethnicity probably played a role. “Maybe they thought my age was a good way to reach young people, but I also just kept showing up. People say, ‘Man, you’re everywhere,’ and I am,” he said.
But, he insisted to me, “President Trump has a way of bringing in a whole group of people who for a long time took a back seat or were not involved in the political process.” I asked who those people were, and he smiled. “People like me. I’m only 23. I’m part of that new generation that’s coming in. I was inspired by him.”It was true there were some young Republicans amid the sea of men and women who looked closer to Trump and Joe Biden’s age.
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