Political parties seek to win the election for their candidate, however, parties are strategic. Parties strategically use resources and have more financial support of candidate in competitive races. At the congressional level, while parties can look to financially help non-incumbent minorities (Theilmann and Wilhite 1991), and incumbents may have more equity in party support between black and white candidates, minorities still have less support (Wilhite 1988). This is also seen at the local level, political parties give fewer resources to minority candidates (Hogan and Thompson 1988). Even though political parties seek to promote certain candidates according to their parties agenda (Visalvanich, Schnakenberg, and Hassell 2015), the following
