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Wine & Dine Wednesday event poster with "The Black Out Edition" text, hosted by Karen Vaughn with music by DJ King on July 15, 2026 from 5:30 PM to 8:30 PM at 475 Pennsylvania Street, Indianapolis.

Less than 2 percent of the registered Republican voters in Florida are African-American, so you won’t see many blacks going to the polls today in that state’s presidential primary, political observers say.

But while black voters are not expected to make a difference in the January primary, Republican candidates know blacks will impact the vote in November, so they are steering clear of speech and commercials that would put them directly put them at odds, said James Taylor, a political science professor at the University of San Francisco.

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