White Liberal Democrat vs. Black Conservative Republican

[Reaganfan]

That would be a great election!

[President Johnson]

That would be a great election!

I agree.

My preferred match-up would be Senator Tim Scott losing to President Steve Bullock in 2024.

[Badger]

I can actually see the GOP nominating a very conservative African-American, at this stage the GOP might just support such a nominee because having a black anti-BLM conservative nominee would trigger the libz kek kek. He'd have to run hard against BLM (''I pulled myself up, they should stop bitching and start doing the same'', something like that) and military/law enforcement experience would help. Basically the tough African American drill sergeant meme. It'd have to be a really conservative African American though.

In the end most black voters would go for the Democratic Party while at this stage I'm pretty damn sure 99% of hard-right white conservatives hate liberals enough to vote for an African American, nobody cares about the 200 delusional racist Dixiecrats in safe Republican states lmao, I hope they'll like their pro-BLM, open borders and pro-choice white president. Republicans always rationalize voting for a Republican nominee (especially when the libs are triggered kek), I don't even think race will matter a lot once he/she is the nominee (but it'll probably somewhat hurt in the primary election). There is some room for GOP improvement with African Americans (the 25% of black voters who somehow hold conservative views) and maybe an African American nominee would help, but I'm pretty sure that an African American can only win a GOP presidential nomination if he/she runs hard against BLM which obviously is going to hurt with black voters in the general. And let's not forget that race isn't the only issue blacks are Democratic. Black voters are disproportionally urban and poor and they've been voting D for many generations. It's going to be a very uphill battle for the GOP to crack 15-20%.

But it's likely not going to happen because there quite frankly isn't a very large pool of African American Republican candidates. Tim Scott looks like a great general election candidate, but for Tim Scott you have 10 other very similar young, conservative and promising politicians. I don't really see what makes Scott more unique than the dozen 40/50-something conservatives that might have their eyes set on 2024 (Rubio, Haley, Cruz, Cotton, some 2018 candidates, etc).

This.

[Badger]

I think Tim Scott could get 20% of African America vote against Sherrod Brown or Bernie Sanders

I highly doubt that. Scott doesn’t even get 10% of black voters in his own state. And again, political science has shown that black voters don’t care if the GOP nominee is black, they will vote for the Democrat.

LOL @ the notion Sherrod Brown is offputting for black voters. If Brown were to cause that, we would be seeing that in the many statewide and congressional races Brown has been in. Bernie also would be winning AA voters by north of 60 if he were the POTUS nominee. Even Mondale won 91% of black voters.

Are you sure about Tim Scott getting that smallest share of the black vote in South Carolina? If nothing else because he's run against absolute joke candidates thus far

[Attorney General & PPT Dwarven Dragon]

I have always been willing to endorse and vote for Men and Women of both parties and Blacks and Whites of both parties, and I believe my endorsements over the years reflect this. The race or gender of a candidate simply does not affect my endorsement or my vote, and I hope it does not affect how any american endorses and votes. It may be true that there is some percentage of blacks who will vote for any black major party candidate regardless of ideology, and for that reason Tim Scott may receive 15% or so of the black vote. But the fact is that Tim Scott is a very conservative republican who does not deserve to be our President, notwithstanding his heroic destruction of the Ryan Bounds nomination.

And Kanye....LOL. I have no further comment on his joke candidacy.