Your thinking is the same craven mistake the GOP makes time after time.
GOP minority and female candidates don’t win Dem support.
But it can make them look foolish real close to an election. And if it takes doing this to ensure another Trump term with at least two more SCOTUS picks, then it's worth doing.
“GOP minority and female candidates don’t win Dem support.”
Tell that to Congressman Mike Garcia, the first Republican to win back a Democrat held seat in California in decades,