Lorenzo Sewell isn’t the typical Republican voter, much less RNC speaker — yet he’s got a prime speaking slot at 7:30 p.m. Eastern Thursday, the final night of convention festivities.
Michiganders earned five spots on the Republican National Convention stage this week in Milwaukee.
One of them is Pastor Lorenzo Sewell, who, to the outside observer, would be the winner in a game of “Which one of these speakers does not belong?”
The other four are exactly who you’d expect at a Republican convention: There’s Rep. John James, who’s running for re-election. Then there’s former Rep. Mike Rogers, now running for Democratic Sen. Debbie Stabenow’s soon-to-be vacant seat. There’s would-be politician Perry Johnson, who has spent millions on Republican politics but is yet to see his name on a ballot. And there’s Benjamin Joseph, a Macomb County business owner.
The odd man out is the 43-year-old black pastor from Detroit’s east side.
Sewell isn’t the typical Republican voter, much less RNC speaker — yet he’s got a prime speaking slot at 7:30 p.m. Eastern Thursday, the final night of convention festivities.
“The city of Detroit has been on an epic decline for 60 years,” Sewell told The Post ahead of his speech. “Throw in Flint, Saginaw, Pontiac. Forget the identity politics, forget the virtue signaling. At the end of the day, if you are a black American in those cities, your kids can’t read, they can’t write, they can’t do math.
