Don't really trust SC being competitive, but it has 13% of blacks undecided so I guess there's still some room to grow for Harrison?
Also, idk how seriously to take it, but a 31% approval rating for Tim Scott among blacks is pretty interesting and would be a big increase over how he did in 2014 and 2016. If that's actually real, then it's an interesting nugget for a post-Trump GOP.
no lol, the point of running black candidates isn't to win black voters in the black belt. They won't actually vote GOP ever.Its to win suburban Charleston/Columbia white voters who want to feel they aren't voting for the racist party.
I mean, yeah, of course, but the GOP also hasn’t run many (any?) black candidates in the South – the only other one that comes to mind in the recent past other than Scott is Steele for MD-SEN in 2006 and that’s debatable (though fwiw he got 25% of the black vote). But if this is actually real and if Scott can hold it to 2022, which ik are two big ifs, then maybe it can be replicated in other more competitive Southern states.
