Americans Of All Ages And Races Agree: Trump Is A Racist

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In these polarized political times, it’s hard to find an issue on which the American people can agree. But as Donald Trump continues to amp up his bigotry ahead of the 2020 campaign, voters have reached a consensus on at least one fact: The president is a racist.

As MSNBC’s Ari Melber noted during an important fact-check on Tuesday, just about every group – young, old, black and white – agrees that Trump is a bigot.

“Pollsters asking Americans whether Donald Trump is a, quote, racist – 51 percent, over half the country, reporting back yes, and nearly every group of voters, you find a majority,” Melber said pointed out, citing the latest Quinnipiac University poll.

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Melber dropped a reality check:

You have Donald Trump saying, well, African-American unemployment has actually dropped. That’s a piece of this. Of course, that began here, as you see, if you want to go through the history, most starkly in the turnaround after the financial crisis under Barack Obama, 9 percent after that recession. And then I want to mention the politics. Donald Trump claiming that African-American voters are happy with those attacks on Cummings we discussed. Let’s look at this national poll, which is out new tonight. This is where America’s at. We didn’t write the question, but pollsters asking Americans whether Donald Trump is a racist. 51%, over half the country, reporting back yes, and nearly every group of voters you find a majority including Independents, Democrats, women, whites with a college degree, blacks, Hispanics, younger Americans, older Americans, just about every group until you sort, Mark, by partisan ideology.

Meanwhile, Trump claims African Americans are praising his racism

As the American people watch with disgust as the president has daily racist meltdowns, Trump – insulated inside of his Fox News-MAGA bubble – seems to believe that this is a smart strategy heading into next year’s election.

In fact, as PoliticusUSA’s Jason Easley wrote this week, Trump is even claiming that African Americans are calling him to thank him for his bigoted attacks on black leaders and inner cities.

But as the public polling shows, it’s not just black voters who believe Trump is a racist. Americans of just about every ethnicity and age group agree as well.

Doubling down on racism might rile up the minority of the country who loyally supports this president, but it will only remind the rest of America – the majority – why they didn’t support Trump to begin with.

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Sean Colarossi currently resides in Cleveland, Ohio. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and was an organizing fellow for both of President Obama’s presidential campaigns. He also worked with Planned Parenthood as an Affordable Care Act Outreach Organizer in 2014, helping northeast Ohio residents obtain health insurance coverage.

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