By about a 2-1 margin!
Interestingly, only 30% of Americans feel the comments were not racist, but Trump’s approval rating is about 45%.
In other words, about a third of Trump’s supporters acknowledge that he is racist, and support him. (Perhaps that is WHY they support him, although that is just speculation. There is no evidence to support the position that all of those people approve of him because he is racist. Many or all may feel that they approve him for other reasons, in spite of his racism. Neither case gives me much peace of mind.)
His strong core of racist supporters, or supporters overlooking his racism, doesn’t surprise me. At one point Trump’s only issue was Obama’s Kenyan birth, and that issue was pure racism in that there was never any evidence of any kind to support it or any legitimate reason to believe it. So back then, 100% of his supporters were in his corner because he was racist. That number must be below 100% now, so I guess you could view that as progress in some twisted way.
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