Black men move toward supporting Trump in Georgia: report

With less than three weeks to go until election day, black male voters in Georgia, a state that Biden won in 2020, are speaking out about their reasons why they will be voting for Trump come November.

Joseph Parker, who attended former President Bill Clinton’s campaign speech at Mount Zion Baptist Church in rural Georgia, told Politico, "Trump’s a man of his word. What he says he’s gonna do, he does." Months of public polling has shown that despite 88 percent of the black vote going to Biden in 2020, black men have been shifting to Trump, per the outlet. 



"And everything is so high now — groceries high, clothes, everything, gas. And four years ago, it wasn’t that high. And so people see the difference in Kamala Harris and Trump, and they want some of what they had four years ago. And I do, too," Parker, who will be casting a ballot for a Republican presidential candidate for the first time, continued.

28-year-old Arthur Beauford, from Marietta, said he will be voting for the first time in this election, casting his ballot for Trump despite family members being "Democrat, all the way." He said that he hears similar remarks from other young men at the gym, speaking about Trump being "funny," "entertaining," and "brave."

“I’m not necessarily the biggest fan of Trump,” Beauford said, “but I’ll definitely take Trump over Harris." He said that he was impressed by Trump’s business experience, and that Harris "just seems to have been given everything" in her career.

Samuel Kem, a 25-year-old black voter from Kennesaw, voted for Biden in 2020 due in part to news coverage painting Trump as not leading well during the pandemic. In the 2024 election, Kem, who graduated from the Savannah College of Art and Design last year, will cast his ballot for Trump. He cited the high cost of living that’s forced him to live with his family as well as "migration issues" under the Biden-Harris administration.

"I wouldn’t say he’s perfect or anything," Kem said. "He will get the job done. He’s very talented in, like, diplomatic relations with other countries with mutual respect."

A paid door knocker with the Faith & Freedom Coalition, Fabienne Durocher, a 47-year-old woman who is a member of the Haitian community and moved to Lawrenceville three years ago, said, "I’m going to tell you the truth. I didn’t like him. But now, I like him. I don’t like when Democrats are talking about abortion. I don’t want that. So I said, for that, I’m going to change my mind. I’m going to vote for Trump."

Jason Shepard, the former chair of the Cobb County Republican Party, told the outlet, "Let’s just boil it down to good old fashioned buyer’s remorse. People have been hit in the wallet. All the sudden, all those mean tweets and crazy comments from Trump just don’t seem as important as a positive balance on your bank account."

This comes as Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris has attempted to entice voters with her "Opportunity Agenda for Black Men," which includes over 1 million grants for black entrepreneurs to start businesses. Her campaign later clarified that the agenda would be open to "others" as well.