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Garion_55

(1,915 posts)
Sat Jan 25, 2020, 02:36 PM Jan 2020

New poll: 83% of African Americans say Trump is a racist

A new Washington Post-Ipsos poll finds that 83% of African Americans across the country believe President Trump is a racist and he's exacerbated the country's race problems while in office.


65% of African Americans said it a "bad time" to be a black person in America while 77% said it's a "good time" to be a white person.

9 out of 10 disapprove of Trump's overall job performance.

https://amp.axios.com/donald-trump-african-american-voters-poll-racist-59f7adcf-776e-4ef1-bfd6-ff3b04ded233.html



So much for Hannity and his recent polls of African-Americans showing Trump with 35% approval. Like we all didn't know that was a joke to begin with. Trump only got 8% of the vote.

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Brother Buzz

(36,434 posts)
10. 17% are still waiting for their promised pony
Sat Jan 25, 2020, 03:23 PM
Jan 2020

African American preachers hold a lot of sway in some communities and can 'deliver' votes, all for the paltry sum of a paved church parking lot or a new roof.

dutch777

(3,019 posts)
5. If we can just get folks like this to vote their interests!
Sat Jan 25, 2020, 02:55 PM
Jan 2020

In some ways these polls are heartening, but my worry is, like the last election, when many eligible to vote aren't registered and worse, when they are registered but don't vote, it leaves us vulnerable to really bad candidates and outcomes.

Vogon_Glory

(9,118 posts)
6. I wonder what percentage of Latino-Americans have reached the same conclusion?
Sat Jan 25, 2020, 02:55 PM
Jan 2020

Not to diss Afro-American voters, who kept the faith while all too many white voters chose to start believing Faux Noise. bunkum or start voting tribally, but to beat Orange Julius and the rest of his crew, it’s going to take more than Afro-American voters and progressive and centrist whites to end Number 45’s and his party’s misrule.

dalton99a

(81,495 posts)
11. "Sixty-nine percent of Latinos think Trump's actions have been bad for Hispanics"
Sat Jan 25, 2020, 03:26 PM
Jan 2020
Sixty-nine percent of Latinos think Trump’s actions have been bad for Hispanics generally, while 19% think they’ve been good. Majorities of Latinos also think Trump’s actions have been bad for African Americans, Muslims and women.

“It’s his attitude. He just has this real cocky way about him,” said Rose Haway, a 62-year-old Hispanic woman who lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. “It’s what he says in his speeches and the way he’s treated migrant children. I’m appalled.”

Haway also pointed to the Republican president’s rhetoric about his desire to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border as especially hurtful.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/poll-black-latino-americans-think-donald-trump-s-actions-have-n1062821

stillcool

(32,626 posts)
15. if 83% of black America...
Sat Jan 25, 2020, 04:15 PM
Jan 2020

were allowed to vote we...wait...we already won. If they ever count the votes against the totals we may find a landslide.

Polybius

(15,417 posts)
12. I still can't believe that Trump got a higher percentage of African American votes than Mitt Romney
Sat Jan 25, 2020, 03:33 PM
Jan 2020

Everyone can agree that Trump is a much bigger racist than Romney.

 

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)
13. I'd bet 80% of GOPers believe trump is racist, but they like that. As Bill Maher -- I know we are
Sat Jan 25, 2020, 04:09 PM
Jan 2020

supposed to hate him -- once quipped:

"There are two things Republicans don't like -- (1) Being called a racist . . . . . . and (2) Black people.

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