Americans are delivering a resounding middle finger to Donald J. Trump.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A majority of Americans sympathize with nationwide protests over the death of an unarmed black man in police custody and disapprove of President Donald Trump’s response to the unrest, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Tuesday.
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The survey conducted on Monday and Tuesday found 64% of American adults were “sympathetic to people who are out protesting right now,” while 27% said they were not and 9% were unsure.
The poll underscored the political risks for Trump, who has adopted a hardline approach to the protests and threatened to deploy the U.S. military to quell violent dissent. The Republican president faces Democrat Joe Biden in November’s election.
It appears right now that the only way the Swine-In-Chief could win a four year respite from the Federal prison sentence he so richly deserves is by calling on his Russian puppetmasters. However it’s not clear that even they could distort these numbers.
Twice as many independent voters said they disapproved of Trump’s response to the unrest. Even among Republicans, only 67% said they approved of the way he had responded, significantly lower than the 82% who liked his overall job performance.
No contrived photo-op with a Bible that he’s never read (and doesn’t believe in) will change that.
He can’t run on some “law and order” BS. This is not 1968. You would never have seen numbers like this in 1968. He’s not Nixon, he’s an incumbent. The chaos America is witnessing is on him, and on him alone.
The Times, They Are A Changin’.