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Thursday, August 24, 2017

Rasmussen Poll: Voters Side With Trump on Monuments

Voters tend to agree with President Trump’s defense of historical statues, and few think getting rid of Confederate monuments will lessen racial tensions in America.

Despite widespread media condemnation of the president’s response following the recent incident in Charlottesville, Virginia, 50% of Likely U.S. Voters agree with Trump’s Twitter tweet that it is “sad to see the history and culture of our great country being ripped apart with the removal of our beautiful statues and monuments.” The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 37% disagree, while 12% are undecided.

Just 28% believe that the removal of Confederate monuments from many cities will help race relations. Thirty-nine percent (39%) think the removal of those Civil War-era statues will hurt race relations instead. Twenty-six percent (26%) say it would have no impact.

Interestingly, blacks (43%) and other minority voters (42%) are MORE likely than whites (38%) to believe the removal of the Confederate statues will hurt race relations. Thirty-five percent (35%) of blacks think the statues’ removal will help race relations, but only 28% of whites and 24% of other minorities agree.

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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

So in other words once again it is a small very loud group of people trying to make us think that it is a very large group of people that agree with them. That is how the Stalinists took power.

Anonymous said...

Eff the statue removers. Leave them the hell alone. That you all do this & get away with it OFFENDS ME a TON!

Anonymous said...

Would these statues being in any danger had Clinton been elected president? It's more like an ongoing temper tantrum of the Left that continues to spiral into madness.