Ileana Ros-Lehtinen in CBS "Face the Nation" interviews during 2018

On Principles & Values: Republican Party needs to attract women & minorities

ROS-LEHTINEN: When you look at the future of the Republican Party, I think that we will be foolish to not see that we're heading into trouble. Very few women are running on the Republican Party ticket for office. Far greater numbers of women are identifying themselves as being in the Democratic Party. Minorities that have always been traditionally a group that we should really be going after, I don't see that we really have a recruiting program that's active to get minorities involved in our party. So the growth of our party, it seems to be very limited in the specific group, whereas the demographics of our great country is changing greatly. And when you look ahead, what's our future going to be? Are we going to end up a marginalized party? I think that we need to look toward the future and we need to have the policies that attract millennials, women, and minorities. I don't see that.