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For those most interested in the seeming hesitance for black voters, particularly, to resist voting for the Republican Party, one of the most interesting thoughts is if a black candidate outside the Democratic Party ran. I was asked one question after my TURF presentation and defense of this thesis project and that was just it.
Do you think a black Republican candidate could sway black voters towards the GOP?
“No,” I said.
I have written on the dilemma of black hesitance to go Republican here before. It is a lot trickier than we often think.
Philadelphia has never seen a black candidate run for a citywide office without the “D” after his name, so I answered the question using the most recent, most local example.