Given that Love appeared to be embracing the historic significance of her feat, CNN hosts John Berman and Michaela Pereira clearly felt some license to walk this ground in an interview this morning. Berman, who is white, noted that Love was the first black Republican woman to be elected to the House and asked how Republicans could pull off more diversity-boosting wins. Love responded this way: “First of all, I think what we need to mention here is this had nothing to do with race. Understand that Utahns have made a statement that they’re not interested in dividing Americans based on race or gender, that they want to make sure that they’re electing people who are honest and who have integrity, who can … make sure that we represent the values that they hold dear and that’s what really made history here. It’s that race, gender had nothing to do with it. Principles had everything to do with it, and Utah values had everything to do with it. And so that’s the history that we made here.”