Black Voters’ Support For Trump Grows In 2024

By Robert J. Hansen | OBSERVER Staff WriterKhalil Ferguson voted for Joe Biden in 2020 and supports Dr. Flojaune Cofer, a progressive, in this year’s Sacramento mayoral race. But he plans to vote for Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election, reflecting a growing trend of increased support for Trump among Black voters compared to previous elections.“That was a very reluctant vote for Biden,” Ferguson, 28, told The OBSERVER.In 2020, 92% of Black voters supported Biden, while just 8% voted for Trump. Today, a recent NAACP survey shows 63% of Black voters favor Biden’s running mate and this year’s Democratic nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris, but 13% back Trump, with 1 in 4 Black men under 50 supporting him.Ferguson’s disenchantment with Harris stems from his feeling that she was “shoved down my throat” after Biden ended his candidacy in July. “Democrats often blame Republicans for eroding democracy,” he says. “Democrats will constantly point the finger at the Republican party as the ones who are destroying democracy when they in fact do a lot of those things internally and suspend their own rules for their agenda.”But what really steered his vote to Trump was having started his own businesses and studying...