A group of black male voters told ABC News they weren’t happy with their votes for either Biden or President Donald Trump in November’s presidential election, with several men saying it was like voting for the lesser of two evils.
“I vote, but that’s the only option I have. So, it’s like, ‘Hey, do you want to burn your hand on an oven or do you want to burn your hand on a toaster?'” rapper Hitman Hola told ABC in a media interview airing Sunday.
ABC News reporter Byron Pitts spoke to black men in the key battleground states of Georgia and Michigan about the issues that matter most to them as voting comes to a close.
“Honestly, I’d have to be convinced, but I don’t know what would convince me,” rapper Jon Jon Da Don told ABC, saying he was considering voting for Trump. “When I look at what’s going on right now, I feel like there was more change when Biden was president than there was when Trump was president.”
Rappers Hitman Hola and Jon Jon Da Don spoke to ABC News’ Byron Pitts about who they plan to vote for in the November election. (Screenshot/ABC)
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“I’m tired of being forced to choose between a lesser evil and a greater evil. I have a right to my beliefs, and I don’t believe these are good candidates for the people,” Antonio Brooks, a community activist in Michigan, told ABC.
USA Today/Suffolk University Public opinion poll announcement The poll, conducted Sunday, found that support for Biden among black voters in both Michigan and Pennsylvania has fallen by about 20 percentage points since the last election. In Michigan, Biden won the support of 54 percent of black voters, compared with 15 percent for Trump.
Trump won just 9% of Michigan’s black vote in the 2020 election.
The poll found the former president won 11% of the black vote in Pennsylvania, a three-point increase from 2020. A majority of black voters in the state, 56%, still support Biden.
Former President Donald Trump held a rally on May 23, 2024, in New York City’s historically Democratic South Bronx neighborhood. (Spencer Pratt/Getty Images)
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Harley Coleman III, CEO of the Community Action Board in Saginaw, Michigan, met with Biden when he visited the state in May. Coleman said they discussed inflation and his economic plans.
“I believe in what President Biden is trying to accomplish, so as we get closer to November I’ll be paying close attention to those policies and how he wants to run this country, and I’m with him,” he told ABC News.
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Another voter, Roy Baldwin, said that as a barbecue restaurant owner, he’s feeling the pain of inflation.
“At this point, I don’t think either of them can make a huge difference to the economy,” Baldwin said of Trump and Biden, who plans to vote in November.
“It has a lot to do with, ‘At least I have a choice.’ So if you say I’m not going to vote, believe me. You’ve already voted. Your vote counts. We fought for it. We died for it, to have our rights and our voice. Silence doesn’t necessarily mean a voice,” he said.
