A considerable majority of Americans believe chants that broke out at a Trump rally calling for a congresswoman of color to be sent back to her birth country were racist, according to a new poll.
The Politico/Morning Consult poll found that 58% of people found the North Carolina audience’s chants of “send her back” — during President Trump’s criticisms of Rep. Ilhan Omar — were racist, including 54% of white voters.
The vote fell primarily along party lines, with 74% of Democrats and 24% of Republicans finding the comments racist and insensitive to Ms. Omar, who was born in Somalia but has been a naturalized U.S. citizen for over two decades.
The poll also asked whether tweets Mr. Trump directed at Ms. Omar and a “squad” of congresswomen of color — Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
of New York, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts — were racist.
The tweets last week told the women they should go back to their home countries if they dislike America so much.
This demonstrated a larger partisan schism as 84 percent of Democrats, 16% of Republicans and 55% of independents thought the tweets were racist. Overll, 53% of registered voters said the tweets were racist, including 50% of white people.
Additionally, 54% of respondents either “somewhat agree” or “strongly agree” Mr. Trump is racist, with 85% of Democrats, 56% of independents and 15% of Republicans answering they “agree.”
The poll was interviewed 1992 registered voters from July 19th to 21st with a margin of error of plus or minus 2 percentage points.
• Bailey Vogt can be reached at bvogt@washingtontimes.com.
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