In the last presidential election, Trump won 12% of the overall black vote, and a fifth of the black male vote. Recent polls, conducted before Joe Biden dropped out of the election, show that 30% of black men favored Trump over Biden.

The Post spoke to four who are voting for Trump for the first time in 2024:

Mark Fisher co-founded the Rhode Island Black Lives Matter chapter in 2020. Four years later, he’s voting for Trump.

“During the protests in Providence, I led from the front, putting myself at risk and putting myself on the front line,” said Fisher, who organized two major marches. “But our enemy is not white people. Our enemy is the over-zealous government.”

Fisher said Biden has done little to help the black community while in the White House, while Donald Trump’s pro-school choice attitude and tough stance on the border have inspired him to reconsider his politics.

“Immigration is a political third rail,” Fisher, a community organizer, said. “It’s political suicide, and that’s why nobody has ever addressed it until now, which is one of the reasons why Donald Trump has such overwhelming support — because he takes on those issues that most people want to actually talk about.”

He recently re-registered as an Independent after a lifetime as a Democrat — and said he regrets voting for Biden in 2020.

“I felt like everything I heard from the media was gospel. I didn’t know any better,” he said. “ ‘Trump is bad.’ ‘Conservatives are racist.’ That’s what they use.”

As for Harris, Fisher said, “Kamala Harris is even less popular than Joe Biden … The worst possible thing for this country would be Kamala in the White House.”

He says that the quality of life in predominantly black, Democrat-stronghold cities made him realize that left-wing policies don’t serve their constituents.

“These horribly poverty stricken communities that have high crime also have failing education systems,” Fisher explained. “And then you add in the unprecedented, unchecked illegal immigration and everything… that the Democrats introduce into the black community is detrimental to us.”

“These people are not invested in the black community. They’re invested in keeping power,” he added. “They pander to black voters.”

Louis Kwame Fosu said education is his number-one election priority — and it’s the reason he’s voting for Trump for the first time.

“These people are not invested in the black community. They’re invested in keeping power,” he added. “They pander to black voters.”

“Our public school system needs to be completely scrapped and overhauled to benefit working people. This system does not work,” Fosu told The Post. “We cannot have a whole generation of blacks and Latinos being forced to go to schools that do not educate them.”

Fosu, who lives in Washington, DC, and is the executive director of the Diversity Think Tank, said Trump’s pro-school choice positions are more aligned with the black community’s interest.

“We hear that all these Republicans are racist and so on and so forth, but that’s a completely media-made construct,” Fosu, formerly a professor of government at the University of Rhode Island, said. “When you actually look at policies that benefit blacks and benefit Latinos, Republican ones serve us much better.”

Since changing his political allegiance from Democrat, he says he’s been the subject of harsh criticism from friends.

“If you’re a black person who supports Republicans, they attack you,” he said. “It’s no accident that you hardly hear any black leaders speaking contrary to what the Democrats want … They basically created an underclass, and, come every election, if you don’t support them, you’re ostracized in your community.”

But he’s undeterred by the critics, and now the attempted assassination of Trump is even more reason to get out to the ballot box.

“Especially for black men, when Trump was attacked, it was just so clear — like, my God, how they persecute this man,” Fosu said. “When the Democrats went after him for these charges for clearly victimless crimes, the black community saw that clearly. That was something that was just so glaring to us.”