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Fri Aug 24, 2018, 07:04 PM Aug 2018

Most Republicans Think a 'Good' President Could Say the N-Word

... Omarosa Manigault Newman released audio of a discussion she had with other Trump staffers about what to do if an N-word tape were to surface, and press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters, "I can't guarantee anything," when asked if tapes of Trump saying the N-word exist ...

... a new Economist/YouGov survey of 1,500 American adults .. found that 64 percent of Republicans said they thought it was "possible that a person who uses the 'N-word' while in office can still be a good President of the United States," compared to 16 percent of Democrats. But even though Republicans are more open to a president who freely spits racial slurs, only 8 percent said they believed Donald Trump "definitely has" used the N-word while in office, compared to 56 percent of Democrats — though 23 percent of Republicans said he "probably has" used the N-word.

To put this all into context, 73 percent of Democrats polled find the N-word offensive, while only 43 percent of Republicans feel the same way ...

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wjkam5/poll-most-republicans-think-a-good-president-could-say-the-n-word


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