by Wendell Husebø
Black farmers in Georgia are rejecting President Joe Biden’s so-called Bidenomics and turning to former President Donald Trump for solutions.
Twenty percent of black voters lean towards supporting Trump in 2024, up about ten points since 2020, a New York Times/Siena poll recently found.
John Slaughter, a 39-year-old black farmer from Buena Vista, Georgia, said he plans to vote for Trump because Democrats only talk about helping business owners when its election season.
“I think we did better under President Trump,” he told the Times. “President Trump, he did something for us while he was in office. President Biden, what have you done for me?”
Many farmers in Georgia are tired of the bureaucracy and red tape they face simply to feed the nation. The overbearing hurdles reportedly cause many to fall behind on their business loans and, therefore, lose the deeds to their farms.
Andrew Smith Sr., a Georgia farmer who voted for Biden in 2020, said he is leaning towards Trump in 2024 because of the Biden administration’s failure to protect small farmers. His farm is also struggling because of paperwork issues, he told the Times.