Samuel Warren, a Black retiree from southwest Georgia who cuts grass for side income, recently explained the financial bottom line on why he plans to vote for Republican Donald Trump rather than President Joe Biden in their looming rematch Nov. 5.
Warren’s preferred candidate in this year’s presidential election is in contrast to the typical Black voter in swing states like Georgia, where 88% of the Black voters cast ballots for the Democrat’s Biden-Harris ticket in the 2020 presidential contest that was decided by less than 12,000 votes.
There has been a concerted effort by the Trump and Biden presidential campaigns to woo the Black vote during recent visits to metro Atlanta, a world away from Warren’s home in rural Ellaville, a town of about 2,000 residents, roughly one third of whom are Black.
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