POLLS/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A narrow majority of Americans voters say President Donald Trump is a racist, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released Tuesday [7-20-19]. Fifty-one percent of voters say they think Trump is a racist. Forty-five percent say they do not think so, and 5% don’t know. Opinions break down along party lines. Ninety-one percent of Republicans say they do not think Trump is racist; only 8% say they do. Eighty-six percent of Democrats say he is racist, and 9% do not. Among independent voters, 56% say Trump is racist compared with 38% who do not. The poll reveals a divide on the question along lines of sex, race and religion. Eighty percent of blacks and 55% of Hispanics say Trump is a racist, 50% of whites say he is not. Forty-one percent of men say he is a racist, and 55% say he is not. Fifty-nine percent of women say he is, and 36% say he is not. At 38%, white men are the least likely to say Trump is racist; 58% of that group says he isn’t. Fifty-three percent of white women say he is racist, and 44% do not.Twenty-one percent of evangelical Christians say Trump is a racist; 76% say he is not. Among Catholics, 48% say he is racist, and 50% say he is not. Among those who say they are not religious, 63% say the president is a racist. In two Quinnipiac polls in 2018, 49% of voters said Trump was a racist. The latest poll is the first time the poll found a majority saying he is.”
–William Cummings, “A majority of voters say President Donald Trump is a racist, Quinnipiac University poll finds,” USA Today, July 31, 2019 4:01 pm