Republican field most diverse primary slate ever – what does it mean for 2024?

Critics say important breakthrough overshadowed by contenders' reluctance to confront systemic racism in US

An African American man whose grandfather dropped out of school to pick cotton. A daughter of Indian immigrants raised in the Sikh faith. A son of Cuban immigrants, an Indian-American entrepreneur, a Black talk radio host and a former undercover CIA officer who is mixed race.

A casual observer might assume that these candidates for the White House in 2024 must be from the same Democratic party that produced Barack Obama. In fact, they all contenders in the Republican presidential primary field - the most diverse in the party's history.