2024 Republicans who can do the best to worst with black voters overall

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The difference between the best and worst performance would be the difference between 3% and 8% of the black vote.

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Best: An actual black Republican like Tim Scott or John James

Worst: Pence.

I haven't seen any evidence that black Republicans do noticeably better with black voters than a generic white Republican, look at Tim Scott's victory maps in South Carolina.

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Best: An actual black Republican like Tim Scott or John James

Worst: Pence.

This. Also, Social Conservatives in general tend to do better with African Americans at primary level, for example Mike Huckabee in 2008.

How many black people even voted in the 2008 Republican Primary?

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Would Pence doing badly with black voters be because of association with Trump or for some other reason?

No, it would be because he's a Republican.

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Would Pence doing badly with black voters be because of association with Trump or for some other reason?

No, it would be because he's a Republican.

Someone said that Pence would do worse with black voters than other Republicans.

I don't really see why.

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Any Republican would get about 10% of the black vote. Maybe if this was a gubernatorial election (Hogan did very well with black voters last year) but it will be stuck in that range for presidential elections for probably our whole lifetimes.

Charlie Baker actually got 48% of the black vote in Massachusetts last year, but I suppose that isn't as impressive as it sounds given that he won by 33% and there's a large number of white liberals in the state.