Half of US voters think Trump is racist: Poll
Slightly more than half of US voters believe
President Donald Trump is racist, according to a poll published on Tuesday.
Fifty-one percent of those surveyed in the
Quinnipiac University poll said Trump is racist while 45 percent said he is
not.
Forty-six percent of white voters polled said the
president is racist while 50 percent said he is not.
Eighty percent of black voters said Trump is racist
while 11 percent said he is not.
As for Hispanic voters, 55 percent said he is racist
while 44 percent said he is not.
Women were more likely than men to believe Trump is
racist.
Fifty-five percent of men said he is not racist while
41 percent said he is.
As for women, 59 percent said he is racist while 36
percent said he is not.
Most of the voters polled -- 61 percent -- said
Congress should not start impeachment proceedings against Trump. Twenty-nine
percent said it should.
The Quinnipiac poll of 1,306 voters nationwide was
conducted between July 25 and 28. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.4
percentage points.
Trump has been accused of racism for promoting the
"birther" lie that Barack Obama was not born in the United States and
his tenure in the White House has been marked by tirades against immigrants and
prominent non-white politicians.
The president insisted to reporters at the White
House on Tuesday that he is the "least racist person anywhere in the
world."
