Unfortunately, however, not a single Republican member of the LA legislature, which will be a supermajority for them with the incoming session is Black. The last one to serve was a State Senator, Elbert Guillory, who had to switch to the GOP, and he was promptly succeeded by a Black Dem. Conversely, there’s almost no White Democrats left in the legislature (unless they hail from a Black majority district or a White urban moonbat seat).
Even if Trump gets to 15%+ of the Black vote (not achieved by a GOP Presidential candidate since 1960, when Nixon got between 25-33%), the GOP has got to make inroads with electing Black candidates in marginal seats, and that’s not happening, yet. Sadly, the party doesn’t seem very interested in providing the needed resources to make that a reality: recruiting, supporting w/$$, GOTV, etc.
Very good point.
Unfortunately, some of the black reps we have had in the past-—Sen. Brooke in MA, Cong. Will Hurd-—were libs. The last real conservative black congressman we had was Allen West.